Re: generic detection

Hussain Salim wrote:
> hi,
> i want to know somenthing about generic detecion for example symantec 
> detect some viruses and trojans as trojan.horse or backdoor.trojan why? 
> why don't they detect them as a special name to know more information 
> about them to fix what they do and thx.
> 
> im asking this question because i got many trojan.horse and 
> backdoor.trojan and there is no technical details for them to know more 
> information to fix what they do in my computer :( .
> 

"Heuristic detection" happens by recognizing code - and making an 
educated guess as to its "sewn-together" purpose. This allows 
recognizing viruses/trojans/etc that haven't been sent in for analysis.

Otherwise, only those found by users and sent in would be detected.

(Obviously, this allows a lot more false alarms too)