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McAfee launches real-time virus killer
INSECURITY OUTFIT McAfee has developed an Internet-based service that allegedly offers real-time protection against malware, viruses, worms and trojans.
Traditional malware detection is typically reliant on databases with threat signatures on a user's computer. However, this approach is somewhat limited, due to an inevitable lapse between threat identification and a database refresh. Artemis Technology reportedly overcomes this supposed shortcoming by querying servers in real-time to determine if a suspicious file is malicious or benign.
Jeff Green, senior VP at McAfee, unabashedly plugged the new technology by predicting a massive "malware onslaught". According to Green, Artemis was the first protective mechanism to function in "Internet time".
Charles Kolodgy of IDC concurred, noting that malware technology had failed to keep pace with an "evolving threat landscape", whatever that means. According to Kolodgy, Artemis represented a "major shift" in countering threats, returning the "innovation initiative to the defense [and] one-upping malware writers". µ
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Is it just another ThreatFire or SafeConnect? What's the difference?
I guess it wil not matter if its the same detection methods they use in their consumer/cooperate AV software.

They have one of the lowest detection rates in AV software as it is, what does it mean to be ineffective in real time?
Wouldn't it be absolutely fvcking hillarious if the server that mccrappy uses to scan people's computers in "real time" got infected with the xpantivirus (or a variant)?

Then every person thinking they're getting their computer "fixed" would be loading probably the most malicious piece of software to date.
No doubt an Anti-Virus flamewar is imminent (but let's not) ;)

Now I'm an AVG fan but this "live" system sounds good and tempting, I always wondered why they don't access an online database live. 

Sure, in the past their were bandwidth issues and people on dial-up - so this would be about the right timing to launch this.

I wonder how long it'll take for the other companies to offer something similar - or even better would be to amalgamate all theirs databases together :D
We now have an official single point of failure - anything that goes wrong on the central virii database, and it'll be hundreds of thousands of PCs that get screwed in mere seconds.
Because Murphy's Law clearly states that "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong", and McAffee, especially given its track record, would do good to heed those words of wisdom.
On the other hand, I do ackmowledge that virus protection is a difficult task, made more so by the brain-dead approach in use today. A whitelist of programs authorized to run, and anything else is blocked until authorized, would be much better.
But then McAffee would only sell one license per user per lifetime - and shareholders wouldn't like that, now would they ?
"Artemis Technology reportedly overcomes this supposed shortcoming by querying servers in real-time to determine if a suspicious file is malicious or benign."

So who updates the servers with the latest Malware definitions? Oh some chap that wrote some. Carry on then! :p

Cheers,
John
This is great, now I can get faster false identification of legitimate files.

Just wait until everyone's office is deleted in "real time."



awwwwww c'mon, talk about Over The Top, jeeeeeeeeez what a resource hog this is gonna be, is McAfee trying to take the 'resource hog' champion title away from symantecs Snoton or just trying to promote mass hysteria ?? O_o