Panda Software Claims Zero-Day Virus Defense

Panda claims to have AV software that doesn't need updating, at least
not the kind of updating that we've become accustomed to:
http://www.newsfactor.com//story.xhtml?story_id=012000008STC
Links to more info on that page.

 

Be interesting to know if their TruePrevent "technology" is yet just
another intrusion detection system (IDS), like Prevx (the Home version
is free).

 

"According to independent testing lab ICSA, TruPrevent is over 98 percent
effective at eliminating malicious software"

In other words, it is no more effective than the best AVs that
use signature scanning alongside analysing the *actual structure*
of the program/file being scanned via CPU emulation (heuristics).
If it is not 100% effective, then this is probably some sort of behaviour
blocking or integrity checking, and nothing more than sales hype.

 

Didn't read the whole artice, but saw something similar 8 or 9 years
ago. It learned what was going on and created rulsets, can't recall the
name but it wasn't very good, more like useless.

All I remember was it came form an Israeli company.

Me