kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:f99lcd$d94$2@aioe.org:

> Dustin Cook wrote:
>> kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:f97g06$8m5$3@aioe.org:
>>> Andy Walker wrote:
> [snip]
>>>> I was just asking the question because you seemed to want to
>>>> discuss your programs capabilities, which are not all that
>>>> impressive.
>>> compared to those that have tens or hundreds of thousands of
>>> man-hours worth of development in them, i suppose not...
>>
>> Which capabilities is it either of you seem to think BugHunter is
>> missing? aside from resident protection... It scans, it can rename,
>> it can delete, it can be told to do nothing but scan. What feature(s)
>> am I not including that everyone else is then?
>
> there are all sorts of more generic detection techniques out there
> that you don't try to implement but more commercial products do - but
> as i said, those products have a lot more time/effort/money behind
> them...

Hueristics etc? No, I don't implement them. Many of the generic detection
methods that worked great for viruses don't work so well for trojans.
Behavior blocking etc works for everything, but that would require
BugHunter to remain resident, and it's really not designed for that.
I certainly do understand your point. Thanks for speaking up.

I didn't intend to confuse anyone by trying to say BugHunter is a
replacement for what you already use. It's not a replacement, it's an
addition to what you already use in the fight against malware. No single
program, commercial or not is going to get them all. It's somewhat unique
in the aspect that it can be executed even when windows is down for the
count.

>> Commercial interest has never been what drives me. And as far as
>> someones opinion of commercial quality; I personally wouldn't have
>> thought hijackthis or cwssearch were commercial quality but guess
>> what? They're both commercial now.
>
> and one of them is now being called spyware...

Yes, saddened to see this. I quit using cwssearch years ago, but I'm
still an avid fan of the older HiJackthis utility.





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