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<blockquote data-quote="bellgamin" data-source="post: 1018914" data-attributes="member: 56053">This is a tempest in a teapot. Spyshelter (SS) is designed to run alongside of a good AV, so as possibly to catch those rare nasties that get by the AV. OSArmor (OSA) is designed to do the same adjunct job.OSA &amp; SS both have a defined, finite set of actions that are often performed by malware &amp; seldom performed by everyday, clean apps. SS has 66 such &quot;malware-type actions&quot; in its scanning kit.Unlike some security apps, such as WiseVector SX, neither OSA nor SS are &quot;smart&quot; apps. That is, they do NOT &quot;learn&quot; from the malware that they scan. Thus, the static nature of their finite list of malware-type actions is their weakness.&nbsp; However, both OSA &amp; SS enable user-developed rules -- a partial compensation for their lack of learning ability.SS has a good HIPS but NO learning ability (heuristics, AI, machine learning, et al). In fact, SS&#039;s internal processes haven&#039;t been updated in a very long time. Ergo, SS has fallen far behind the technology of 2023.BOTTOM LINE: SS has new owners and they must quickly up-date SS to become a &quot;smart app&quot; or SS will become history. Even so, implying that SS is worthless is simply incorrect. Because its &quot;suspicious actions&quot; list is static &amp; finite, SS won&#039;t catch everything that gets by my AV but it WILL catch some of it. Some is better than none, wot?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bellgamin, post: 1018914, member: 56053"] This is a tempest in a teapot. Spyshelter (SS) is designed to run alongside of a good AV, so as possibly to catch those rare nasties that get by the AV. OSArmor (OSA) is designed to do the same adjunct job. OSA & SS both have a defined, [U]finite[/U] set of actions that are often performed by malware & seldom performed by everyday, clean apps. SS has 66 such "malware-type actions" in its scanning kit. Unlike some security apps, such as WiseVector SX, neither OSA nor SS are "smart" apps. That is, they do NOT "learn" from the malware that they scan. Thus, the static nature of their finite list of malware-type actions is their weakness. However, both OSA & SS enable user-developed rules -- a partial compensation for their lack of learning ability. SS has a good HIPS but NO learning ability (heuristics, AI, machine learning, et al). In fact, SS's internal processes haven't been updated in a very long time. Ergo, SS has fallen far behind the technology of 2023. BOTTOM LINE: SS has new owners and they must quickly up-date SS to become a "smart app" or SS will become history. Even so, implying that SS is worthless is simply incorrect. Because its "suspicious actions" list is static & finite, SS won't catch everything that gets by my AV but it WILL catch some of it. Some is better than none, wot? [/QUOTE]

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