Comdex, Sweden. January 22,
2004 – Leading Norwegian IT security company Norman Data
Defense Systems, today announced that Norman’s SandBox
technology detects new and unknown malware threats,
including Trojans and worms.
Today, an email worm can infect tens of thousands of
workstations in a matter of seconds - Sobig.F has shown
the potential disruption and inconvenience these threats
can produce. The anti-virus vendors are expected to find
the cure, update the virus definition files, and
distribute this to their customers immediately. The need
for speed is paramount.
Norman’s SandBox technology makes it possible to catch
viruses and other malicious software before virus
signatures have been released. The Norman SandBox
technology represents a milestone in non-signature based
detection of new, unknown viruses’ utilizing far superior
techniques to those adopted by pure heuristics. This
unique technology stops and quarantines the malware
attacking the machine based on behavior even before any
virus signature file is created for this specific threat.
New versions of this improved technology show that Norman
SandBox detects a majority of viruses before anyone has
ever seen them, protecting customers before threats are
even seen – after all, prevention is better than cure.
Norman SandBox has traditionally included simulation of
networks and network related services to offer improved
detection of advanced Win32 worms. Today’s version of this
technique utilises even more sophisticated functions to
assist in stopping destructive code activating.
The simulated virtual machine (Norman Sandbox) now
incorporates services found in most networks, like SMTP,
News, IRC, DNS, etc. This deludes the malware into
believing it is in a live network allowing the SandBox to
evaluate its behaviour and potential threats to the
network environment.
“We see the development of Norman SandBox as a huge step
forward in assisting our customers against the growing
threat of destructive malware. By implementing this
software customers will, in the majority of new virus
outbreak situations, avoid infections and costly overheads
usually associated with virus outbreaks”, says Steinar
Wigtil Director of R&D.
Norman Sandbox v2 technique is implemented in most Norman
Virus Control products, including the recent release of
the innovative NVCNet technology.
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information, please contact
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