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Offline Lisandro

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Re: heuristic antivirus
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2009, 12:58:03 PM »
Quote from: Vladimyr on January 21, 2009, 01:58:18 AM
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These "circles" may be of interest http://www.pctools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50224
They say: heurisitics is the analysis of generic malware code from different families of malware.
So, in this meaning, avast generic signatures are heuristic, imho.
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Offline Vladimyr

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Re: heuristic antivirus
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2009, 01:51:31 PM »
Mmm...
Is guesswork on the part of a human analyst creating the latest avast! vps the same as 'guesswork' by the program itself - and therefore 'heuristic'?

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