New anti-virus technology from Sunbelt
A new antivirus technology has been recently released in UK after the U.S by the Vipre Enterprise of Sunbelt Company. This anti malware client software is just another program that is showed off for attention through the admin friendly claims which can protect the computers from malware without any slaughtering process. The company has also made known the fact that the anti malware engine was written at the center of Vipre from scratch and have not purchase it from any larger AV vendor as most of the independent security rivals of Sunbelt do.
Alex Eckelberry the CEO has revealed that from mid February Vipre will be automatically updated to use the new heuristic program to spot malware as they simply run a suspect program in the virtual machine on the host computer. MX-Virtualization or MX-V, as it is called in company jargon, Vipre successfully creates an emulated Windows OS computer system in a surprising area of the memory where in it copies API functions like the Windows registry and the communication interfaces and file system to find out what the file is currently doing. This lines with the different conservative pattern based techniques that try to find out malware through their unique procedures.
Even though this technology is not new most of the people have got it to use without creating a different in performance. Emulating Window and running virtual machines has also been seen as the process for sluggish computers. The company Sunbelt however considers it has upped the slightly mixed that is possible with emulations by several times over what was before possible, which for the first time makes it practical possibility.
According to EcKelberry in his recent blog that, Dynamic Translation is the technology used by Vipre which basically recompiles large parts of the program, on the go, in order to boast performance to nearly 400 MIPS. He further added that it was the use of Dynamic Translations which makes the MX-V layer which is adjunct to it and the built in emulation of Vipre capable of quickly analyzing the system for the presence of any malware. The blog further mentions that the rapidly developing complexity of malware makes standard detection methods increasingly outdated and so there are new strains or malware use some highly complicated obfuscation methods designed hide from also the most complicated analysis system.
Eckelberry, in a separate interview said as much as he is aware of, the only other anti-malware system which has tried the file emulation process was BitDefender and Microsoft. However Vipre Enterprise boasts of their anti-rootkit protection which is a program that runs special module that is called as “advanced kernel monitoring and firstscan in advanced Windows loading.” Apart form this the company is also planning to further set improvements to Vipre Enterprise for later during this year which include endpoint protection, intrusion protection and an integrated firewall where most of them are specifically designed in order to appeal the enterprise users.
