Reactive vs. proactive solution
Traditional, signature-based security solutions only react to known threats. The problem is that signature based solutions can only detect known attacks with identification signatures that need to be available in the users‘ system at the time of the attack, which often takes a few hours. With the speed the new malware can spread today, the risk that you become a victim of a new, so far unknown infiltration is too real. The solution of Eset is based upon the unique ThreatSense® technology utilizing a new generation of advanced heuristics. This technology offers proactive protection against newest infiltrations in the early hours of their spreading, while the experts in Eset’s labs work on creating of a new signature which is to be added to the virus signatures database of NOD32.
ThreatSense® technology - a unique proactive solution
The ThreatSense® technology combines various techniques of testing based upon heuristic analysis including emulation of a full 32-bit code and exact and generic signatures. One of NOD32‘s key strengths is its ability to utilize different scanning techniques in a parallel fashion to maximize performance.
ThreatSense®.Net - global malware monitoring system
Products utilizing the ThreatSense® technology include also a new feature, ThreatSense®.Net — an online early warning system that monitors global malware epidemics. The gathered data is used to enhance the ThreatSense engine to detect new malware.
Customers can opt-in to automatically provide Eset’s researchers with anonymous data packages about new threats detected by NOD32 on their computers. Threats detected by advanced heuristics are analyzed, and an effective virus database update is launched before the threat can spread worldwide and mutate into numerous variations.
Eset respects its customers’ privacy — submitting of information is an optional feature. If user decides to send information, it is not only anonymous, but, in addition, all documents and files containing potentially sensitive data are excluded from submitting. Since its launching in March 2005, the technology gathered information from more than 1.000.000 users, with the number still increasing. ThreatSense®.Net technology also enables users to manually submit such files that appear to be infected. These suspicious files are submitted in a secured, encrypted form directly to virus labs to be available to Eset’s analysts and experts. A suspicious fileisanalyzed, and if a new infiltration is detected, its sample is added to next update.
