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<blockquote data-quote="McMcbrad" data-source="post: 915835" data-attributes="member: 89360">I was told by Tim Lopez, who was Norton Support and Community Manager before, that Data Protector is discontinued... And frankly I didn't see that feature on my last test. Norton centres everything around the Norton Insight reputation system and a code injector would easily bypass their Data Protector, even it it was present.SONAR is not really a true behavioural blocker, it's also built around the Insight system mainly. It works great on *.exe files, where reputation can be applied, but it typically fails on everything else.The way Norton reports data back is a total nonsense. It collects data, it waits for your system to be idle (on, but without using keyboard and mouse) and then it kicks in. Norton then has a very slow reaction time.The ADVML heuristic is great, but again, mainly on *.exe files.As for F-Secure, they could use the same data they use to block malicious URLs in browser to block them in other apps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="McMcbrad, post: 915835, member: 89360"] I was told by Tim Lopez, who was Norton Support and Community Manager before, that Data Protector is discontinued... And frankly I didn't see that feature on my last test. Norton centres everything around the Norton Insight reputation system and a code injector would easily bypass their Data Protector, even it it was present. SONAR is not really a true behavioural blocker, it's also built around the Insight system mainly. It works great on *.exe files, where reputation can be applied, but it typically fails on everything else. The way Norton reports data back is a total nonsense. It collects data, it waits for your system to be idle (on, but without using keyboard and mouse) and then it kicks in. Norton then has a very slow reaction time. The ADVML heuristic is great, but again, mainly on *.exe files. As for F-Secure, they could use the same data they use to block malicious URLs in browser to block them in other apps. [/QUOTE]

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