Submitted by Ilya Shabanov on Mon, 03/16/2009 - 09:22
Serious efforts of the antivirus industry are focused on proactive methods of antivirus protection, which allow antivirus software to combat malicious programs that have undergone modifications and those that are still unknown. This development trend is the most promising on the market and almost every developer likes to emphasize just how good their proactive defense is.
The industry has recently witnessed a shift in emphasis to so-called proactive methods of antivirus protection, which allow antivirus software to combat malicious programs that have undergone modifications and those that are as yet unknown. This development trend is the most promising on the market and almost every developer likes to emphasize just how good their proactive defense is.
Comparative testing of 21 popular firewalls to check the quality of protection from attacks, coming from inside the system. In the test we checked the protection on 64 specially developed utilities, checking the protection of processes from quitting, protection from standard outbound attacks, protection from non-standard leaks and protection from non-standard techniques of penetration inside the kernel-mode.