US company Sunbelt Software is set to become one of the first anti-virus vendors to embrace a promising but as yet little-used new technique for malware detection known as ‘file emulation’. Released this week to UK users after a US launch some time ago, the company’s Vipre Enterprise anti-malware client is on the face of it just another program jostling for attention with the admin-friendly claim that it can protect PCs from malware without slaughtering performance. Known in company jargon as ‘MX-Virtualization’ (MX-V), Vipre effectively creates an emulated Windows PC in a sandbagged area of memory, mimicking API functions such as the Windows registry, file system, and communications interfaces to see what a file is trying to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a separate interview with Techworld, Eckelberry said that as far as he was aware the only other anti-malware products to have tried file emulation in anger were Microsoft and BitDefender.<\/p>\n
Vipre Enterprise also boasts of its anti-rootkit protection – the program runs a special module called ‘firstscan in advance of Windows loading – and advanced kernel monitoring.<\/p>\n
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