Hi all!
Define heuristics?Generally: Heuristics = guessing.
Guesses can be good or bad, well or ill informed, right or wrong.
Guesswork is often a useful thing but you wouldn't want to bet your life, or your life savings (Did I hear someone say; 'Global Financial Crisis'?), on it!
Now back to avast!
If avast! is to have heuristic analysis in the Standard Shield, it will need to be very good heuristic analysis. The word 'heuristics' is not magic. (BTW, love the fake slider joke
.)
I think the semantic issue stems in part from when ESET (a company for which I otherwise have great respect) began using the term "Advanced Heuristics" as a label for what they describe in detail as
behavior analysis.