Departing from its traditional signature-based anti-virus security techniques, Symantec, the leading security company, has unveiled its latest tool called (SONAR) the Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response for Norton products users. With the help of new security software, the users of Symantec’s Norton products will be enabled to help themselves out against the unpatched software vulnerabilities.
Ed Kim, director of product management with Symantec’s consumer business unit, said,
It is zero-day protection that doesn’t rely on threat signatures. ‘Zero-day attacks are founded on vulnerabilities that are unidentified, or have not yet been patched by the purveyor, and they are primarily good at their job against signature-based antivirus protection.
(SONAR) Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response is aimed at studying the behavior of programs running on the PC with a view to ensuring if they are pernicious. SONAR make use of an algorithm to estimate hundreds of attributes with reference to software that is running on the computer, so it can detect pernicious software, whether it’s already been identified by Symantec researchers or not.
The latest tool SONAR is a free add-on to Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2007 & Norton Internet Security 2007 products. The software is also claimed to be built on technology that Symantec grabbed in its 2005 purchase of WholeSecurity.
