When Gmail first went looking for AV scanners to use, they approached a number of AV companies. When it became clear that (a) the companies were...
6.0.9.0 will not have any significant functionality changes in the GUI - it is mostly a "bug fix and performance improvement" release. In...
We will be releasing 6.0.9.0 home and the "lan-updater" version at about the same time.
F-Secure used to use the complete F-Prot engine, but later they only used the macro and script scanning parts of F-PROT 3.x. As there has been...
A week or two. We have a deadline on Feb 28th anyhow for the next Virus Bulletin test (32-bit Vista), and other versions will follow right afterward.
To be fair, I would not exactly consider the Shadowserver results indicative of what most people consider 0-day detection. Basically, those...
Well, I assume that this is exactly the goal of all AV products with heuristic ability. However, you need to distinguish between "narrow" and...
Indeed - this is a side effect of using heuristic detection. For example a "paranoid" heuristic rule might detect that a program is a downloader,...
One thing about the layered model - as you know, F-Prot is not a complete suite package - in particular we do not include a firewall or a...
There will be a *slightly* higher detection rate if the heuristics are set to 4, rather than 3, yes. Now, as I have said before, I really don't...
Uh. what do you mean by not being able to adjust the settings in the home version? They are changed exactly in the same way. HOWEVER - in both...
No, A 9X/ME GUI version would cost more to develop than it would bring in. As for a CLI version, it is trivial - I could even easily make a DOS...
I'm not sure I understand the question. F-Prot 6.x is for Win 2000 and up (although I admit there are currently some minor issues with Vista,...
As the original author of F-Prot, I am obviously biased ;) but I just wanted to add one comment regarding behaviour blocking. Right now our...
Well, as far as I am concerned, Vesselin has been around long enough and has enough of a reputation in the AV industry to have an opinion of his...
Well, the version which went into in-house testing today should get rid of most of the reported issues (Vista or otherwise). Regarding the...
There was a delay, yes, partly caused by some (former) employees not doing their job, but I'm not going into details here. Version 6.0.9 should...
I am obviously biased, being the original author of F-PROT, so keep that in mind, please. F-PROT was the first product to use the phrase...
Well, it's not quite that simple. You see - if the malware authors want to be sure no AV programs will detect their new creations, they have to...
I did not say that. I said that the results there demonstrated our increased focus on heuristics - you can compare the results for the "old" and...
If you include "generic detections" in the term "heuristics", the answer is "very". They can fairly easily detect stuff that is basically minor...
So, what are your thoughts about this: http://phbt.us/images/wloc.jpg
There were several reasons we at F-Prot decided not to participate in the tests done by Andreas Clementi this year - one being the development of...
It's a bit worse than that. Some variants are generated automatically and change (on the servers) every few minutes. They are not "polymorphic"...
When heuristics were first introduced, back around 1990 it was for the purpose of getting 0-day detection, although it was not called by that name...
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