F-Secure AV Engines

[JerryM]

If I remember correctly F-Secure AV has at least 5 different engines, to include Kaspersky and AdAware. What are the engines? I have found them in the past, but cannot find them now.

Thanks,
Jerry

[lucas1985]

Libra = F-Prot´s macro and script scanner.
DeepGuard = Norman Sandbox (?)

[midway40]

[going from memory here]

AVP: Kaspersky
Libra: FS's signature base
Orion: FS's heuristics base
Draco: AdAware(?, since they have implied that '07 has a new AS engine)
BlackLight: FS's Rootkit detection

[IBK]

Pegasus: Norman

[NAMOR]

Anyone know what the Gemini engine is?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/NAMOR/f-secure.png

[NAMOR]

nevermind... damn you Google!

{QUOTE-> If there are no previous user decision for the program and F-Secure DeepGuard™ does not recognize the program, the artificial intelligence first runs a scan using the Gemini heuristic scanning engine and the Pegasus sandbox and then interprets the results. The Gemini heuristic scanning engine performs an in-depth analysis of the target program, looking for anomalies and signs of dangerous intent of the scanned program. The Pegasus engine, on the other side, is a sandbox -based heuristic antivirus engine. <-QUOTE}

http://www.f-secure.com/f-secure/pressroom/protected/prot-3-2006/17-459-3669.shtml

[trjam]

thanks Namor. Interesting reading.

[trjam]

http://www.f-secure.com/f-secure/pressroom/protected/prot-3-2006/17-459-3668.shtml

[Simon6776]

Ah, now this is very interesting:-

{QUOTE-> Improved Spyware protection with the integration of a Kaspersky spyware engine <-QUOTE}
I wonder if this could be connected with my F-Secure spyware scanner crashing? Before I installed FSIS 2007, I has KIS on board, and when I removed KIS, I elected to save the licensing info, and other settings, including iSwift and iChecker data, to make things easier if I wanted to reinstall it. Could this be affecting the FS spyware scanner? Is there a dedicated KIS removal tool available?

[lodore]

1.yes there is a dedicated kis6.0 removal tool
http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/kis6/kiskav6remove.zip
you have to boot in to safe mode to use it thou.
2. i think they mean they are using kav extended databases.]
check in the updates packages in the settings and one of the packages should be labeled avp extended which is kaspersky extended databases.
lodore