<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ba98d5cd-2ae7-44d1-bf53-c3afbaccd925/A536F158-2564-408D-AD20-AF0B90F37736/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html" href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.forbes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html">AV-Comparatives may not be measuring the newest features of anti-malware programs, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html">The next generation of malware detection, he argues, is "behavior-based" detection, which filters out bad files based largely on how they act over time after they're installed on your PC--not just their appearance at the moment of a scan.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html"> "Now we know it's something bad because it grabs your keyboard, sends your data to China." </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html">AV-Test, in fact, gave Symantec top marks for the kind of "proactive" scanning that Cole describes. Avira, however, fared far worse. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html">real winner, it turns out, may be ESET</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html">claims its secret is "advanced heuristics," the ability to statistically recognize a familiar piece of malware in a new form.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html">real key to defeating malware isn't antivirus but approaches like Firefox's no-script plug-in, which blocks Web pages from running potentially malicious programs. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/11/virus-filter-avira-tech-security-cx_ag_1211virus.html"><A rel="nofollow" href="http://topics.forbes.com/Windows%20Vista">Windows Vista</A> or Google Chrome that "sandbox" or limit applications' access to computer resources.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A536F158-2564-408D-AD20-AF0B90F37736/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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