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- Expert system: A software program that
mimics the process of decision making of a human expert, in a particular
area of expertise.
- Knowledge base: The set of rules that characterize
the knowledge in a particular field of expertise. The knowledge base
governs the operation of an expert system and is the analogue of the
database in ordinary AV programs.
- Generic: Not particular to a specific kind,
but to whole groups, 'genus' in Latin. InVircible is generic in that
it deals with an entire group of viruses by a common method, rather
than dealing with every particular one, separately. Generic AV does
not require a-priori knowledge on the specifics of a new virus.
- Proactive: Actively deals with malware
threats even before they exist. The opposite to 'reactive' - which means
'able to react to a threat only after it has been analyzed and added
to the database'.
- Fail safe: A measure of robustness of a
critical system and its non-criticality to failure. Fail safe systems
are more dependable as they use redundancy and multiple independent
methods to assure the completion of the task.
- Multi layered: A system architecture that
uses multiple and independent methods to deal with the same or various
groups of threats. Each threat is handled by more than one layer, which
is what makes it fail-safe.
- Virus: Parasitic computer code that replicates
by producing functional copies of itself into host files. The infected
hosts inherit the replication ability of the affecting virus, in addition
to maintaining the original functionality of the host program or file.
- Trojan: A program that pretends doing some
useful or desired task, while in reality it does something else, mostly
mischievous or harmful things. The distinction between a virus and Trojan
is that the previous attaches to a host, hence 'parasitic', while a
Trojan is the malicious program itself.
- Worm: Self-contained and self-propagating
computer code that spreads from one machine to others, having a single
instance of itself per affected computer.
- Malware: An entity implemented through
computer coding that has a non-benign intent. Viruses, Trojans, and
worms, as well as hackers' tools are all malware.
- InVircible: The only fully generic, proactive,
and multi layered Anti Viral protection on the market, that deals with
malware, whether known or new, without being dependent on critical updates.
- ResQpro: A general purpose data and disaster
recovery package, used to regain access to a lost partition or hard
drive, recover from disk crashes, viral damage, corruption and more
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Last modified: May 15 2007 |
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