Move to a behaviour based security tool with Mamutu

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Move to a behaviour based security tool with Mamutu

December 5, 2007 in Security | Permalink

Screengrab_3 The majority of the available security applications rely on definitions to prevent against the latest threats. The problem with this mechanism is that it relies on the security developer to provide definition updates that will deal with the latest threat, before it reaches your computer. That's no good if you get infected before you receive the update. For this reason, security companies have realised that they need another way of combating threats before you get infected. The conclusion is behaviour-based protection that will try and establish what you do with your computer and then will proactively prevent your machine from being attacked if the software recognises that something different is happening on your machine.

Mamutu 1.0.0.117 is technology from the company behind the highly-rated A-Squared that will prevent attack by analysing possible malicious software based on the type of activity it performs on your computer. There are other new tools that perform in a similar manner, such as PC Tools ThreatFire.