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Twister Antivirus 8 Test
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<blockquote data-quote="Thirio" data-source="post: 624043" data-attributes="member: 59876"><p>Twister uses a multi-layered approach similar to Comodo (which is highly recommended on this forum, and for a good reason). You have signatures, HIPS, virtualization, static and dynamic heuristics, registry protection and so on. The signatures are updated on a daily basis but the heuristics are more valuable than that. Any unknown file is opened in a virtual environment where it can do no harm to the user's computer where it can be run for 1-10 seconds to analyze the file's behavior. If the file demonstrates malicious characteristics it will be detected as a suspicious new threat and be ready for removal. This prepares for new malware in the future which is not yet in their signatures as of yet(doesn't matter if they haven't updated the GUI in 3 years). I believe the heuristic detection can also be updated through their daily signature updates, I doubt they are only updating their signatures and forgetting everything else. They have to be smarter than that to innovate these new ideas into their product in the first place. The product seems to function well. You should also take into account that because they are not so popular, malware authors will target them less. They will target the AV companies with a larger user base before Twister, such as Microsoft, Avast, Avira, Norton, Eset, Bitdefender, Kaspersky, so on.</p><p></p><p>In this case I think its important not to judge a book by its cover. Would you rather use a signature based scanner that gets a graphical update every 3 months, or a complete solution which can detect new emerging threats constantly, but hasn't seen a makeover in 3 years? I'd rather have meaningful updates that serve me a purpose rather than just bug fixes and unwanted features. Quality over quantity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirio, post: 624043, member: 59876"] Twister uses a multi-layered approach similar to Comodo (which is highly recommended on this forum, and for a good reason). You have signatures, HIPS, virtualization, static and dynamic heuristics, registry protection and so on. The signatures are updated on a daily basis but the heuristics are more valuable than that. Any unknown file is opened in a virtual environment where it can do no harm to the user's computer where it can be run for 1-10 seconds to analyze the file's behavior. If the file demonstrates malicious characteristics it will be detected as a suspicious new threat and be ready for removal. This prepares for new malware in the future which is not yet in their signatures as of yet(doesn't matter if they haven't updated the GUI in 3 years). I believe the heuristic detection can also be updated through their daily signature updates, I doubt they are only updating their signatures and forgetting everything else. They have to be smarter than that to innovate these new ideas into their product in the first place. The product seems to function well. You should also take into account that because they are not so popular, malware authors will target them less. They will target the AV companies with a larger user base before Twister, such as Microsoft, Avast, Avira, Norton, Eset, Bitdefender, Kaspersky, so on. In this case I think its important not to judge a book by its cover. Would you rather use a signature based scanner that gets a graphical update every 3 months, or a complete solution which can detect new emerging threats constantly, but hasn't seen a makeover in 3 years? I'd rather have meaningful updates that serve me a purpose rather than just bug fixes and unwanted features. Quality over quantity. [/QUOTE]
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