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New protection system to anticipate PC invaders
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Wed Sep 09 08:28:31 2009
New protection system to anticipate PC invaders
Sept. 8, 2009
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY
In a step that should help make the Internet safer for consumers,
anti-virus giant Symantec on Wednesday will introduce a protection
system designed to anticipate new malicious programs that try to sneak
onto your computer.
For decades, anti-virus protection has worked by reacting to new
malicious programs. Researchers scramble to identify bad code, then
create and distribute filters for it. But cybercriminals have gotten so
fast at evading the latest filters that protection often comes too late.
Symantec's new system, called Quorum, continuously predicts whether any
new program that attempts to run on your PC is good or bad. It then
takes steps to quarantine the bad code. "We're closing a major gap the
bad guys have been using to deliver their malicious software," says
Rowan Trollope, senior vice president of consumer products.
For rest of the article, see:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-09-07-tech-hackers-antivirus_N.htm
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