Symantec announced late today a free public beta for its new Norton AntiBot software that attempts to identify malware on your system by analyzing its behavior.
The stand-alone software is based on existing (and currently available) technology from Sana Security, with a few minor add-ins from Symantec’s SONAR behavioral scanning technology that is now included in Norton products.
Symantec says AntiBot is meant as a supplement to antivirus software, not a replacement, and doesn’t use signatures as traditional antivirus products do. Instead, it examines how a program behaves–where it runs from, what Registry changes it makes, what Internet sites it may attempt to contact, and so on. The company says it won’t conflict with other antivirus programs, either its own or those of competitors.
continued @ PCWorld
2 Responses
Tomas
July 10th, 2007 at 3:53 am
1Using Symantec software is like trying to run a car with a petrol engine off diesel. Works only when other things are boosting it to run and drags everything to the garbage with it. I have about as much confidence in Symantec as I have in Dubya talking sense. Pah!!
Vmon
July 17th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
2I love all the Symantec bashing. I have never had a problem with any of the products. With that said, I think all the haters will be pleasantly surprised with NIS 2007.4, NIS 2008 (I am a beta tester), and Antibot (was a beta tester). Very few processes are now used. Three toal for NIS 2007.4 and NIS 2008.
Cheers!
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