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Article: No dogs allowed!(Ask the EXPERTS)(antivirus software uses heuristics to detect threats)
- Article from:
- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 2, 2007
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Aside from discrimination against dogs, there's a story here about how antivirus can help to protect you from unknown threats.
If I walk up to a restaurant with a Catahoula Leopard Dog, the odds are that nobody in the restaurant has ever seen this breed of clog before. So, why won't they let me in with an animal they have never seen before? The answer is heuristics. Heuristics use rules to solve problems. Perhaps you have never seen a Catahoula Leopard dog, but if you did you would recognize it as a dog. The animal looks like several other animals you have seen that are also dogs. You know it isn't a cat, or a bear. Now take a moment to try to describe a dog. ...