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Monday, October 09, 2006

Intention based antivirus software really works

One of my friends apparently works for a intention based antivirus software company (I am not mentioning the name of the company to make it clear that I am not simply promoting his intention based antivirus company)

According to him,intention based antivirus is a technology that even companies like McAfee and Symantec are researching. Intention based antivirus software will of course revolutionize the antivirus software industry. Imagine a antivirus detection and defence world with

  • No frequent antivirus updates since the intention based antivirus technology does not need updates on new viruses,spyware

  • No more clogging of bandwidth due to antivirus updates- again, since intention based antivirus does not need major corporate-wide antivirus updates every month



Intention based antivirus software is definitely here to stay-If intention based antivirus software is so easy to develop - why havent the major antivirus vendors such as McAfee and Symantec adopted the new technology?

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Intention based antivirus

Intention based antivirus software definitely sounds cool- I definitely dont like the prospect of downloading antivirus software updates almost every day

In addition, I am obviously worried about some antivirus program installing their own rootkit on my machine!

My only question: When are McAfee and Norton antivirus software moving to an intention based antivirus algorithm? Silence? Hmm