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- Created in Europe to combat the growing threat of intelligent
- and sophisticated viruses around the world, ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus
- Utilities have been leaders in the anti-virus computer software
- field for several years, boasting the world's fastest scanner.
- Using a combination of traditional and proprietary heuristic
- "seek-and-destroy" techniques to ferret out even the stealthiest
- viruses, trojans, and logic bombs, these utilities offer an
- enhanced level of anti-virus protection at speeds that are
- unsurpassed in the PC arena.
-
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- ThunderNEWS * A BREAKTHROUGH IN DETECTION OF ENCRYPTED POLYMORPHIC VIRUSES *
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- ThunderBYTE has once again defined the cutting edge in virus
- detection technology with the first and only generic decryption
- virus scanner, that can detect encrypted polymorphic viruses.
-
- TbScan, ThunderBYTE's flagship virus scanning product, now
- incorporates a code emulator that automatically decrypts any
- encrypted virus without requiring any information about the
- specific virus.
-
- A polymorphic virus is one which uses advanced encryption techniques to
- assemble varied (yet entirely operational) clones of itself. This technique
- renders signature-based anti-virus scanning technology obsolete.
-
- ThunderBYTE has overcome the obstacles presented by these advanced
- polymorphic and encryption engines by using a real code emulator in TbScan.
-
- "The emulation done by TbScan is purely software based," says Howard H. Thaw,
- President of ThunderBYTE North American Sales. "No instruction of the file
- to be examined will ever be executed. This is so we can be 100% sure that
- something undesirable will not be activated."
-
- "No longer do we have to create algorithmic virus detection routines to
- detect complex polymorphic viruses," says Robin Bijland, President of ESaSS
- B.V., Nijmegen, The Netherlands, the company that developed TbScan. "All
- polymorphic viruses can now be detected by simple signature. We are now able
- to distinguish between different viruses that have been encrypted by the same
- engine. For example, instead of naming every MtE (Mutating Virus Engine)-
- based virus 'MtE', we can now name them 'MtE:Pogue', 'MtE:Fear', etc."
-
- Encrypted polymorphic viruses are the latest and most difficult to detect
- class of viruses, since each file infected by the virus looks completely
- different. Serious virus researchers from around-the-world exchange virus
- samples with each other to confirm rapidly the authenticity, classification
- and reliable detection of new viruses.
-
- Recently scientists at ESaSS examined samples of a software infection
- emanating from The Black Baron's Simulated Metamorphic Encryption Generator
- (SMEG) that clearly indicates a new level of sophistication with viruses.
-
- "After failing to detect the new virus with simple signature-based scanners,
- generic techniques, and even our own proprietary heuristic methods,"
- commented Dr. Frans Veldman, Author of ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus and Chief
- Executive of ESaSS, B.V., "the ESaSS scientific team completed work on a
- sophisticated "generic decryption scanning engine", which detected the
- mystery virus within seconds."
-
- Created in Europe to combat the growing threat of intelligent and
- sophisticated viruses around the world, ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus Utilities have
- been leaders in the anti-virus computer software field for several years,
- boasting the world's fastest scanner. Using a combination of traditional and
- proprietary heuristic "seek-and-destroy" techniques to ferret out even the
- stealthiest viruses, trojans, and logic bombs, these utilities offer an
- enhanced level of anti-virus protection at speeds that are unsurpassed in the
- PC arena.
-
- A new version of the ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus Utilities (TBAV) incorporating
- this generic decryption and code emulation technology is now available from
- ThunderBYTE North American Sales, which is a partnership between the
- developers, ESaSS B.V. (The Netherlands) and TCT (Thaw Computer Technology
- Inc.), a respected and established computer security organization with
- offices in the United States and Canada. Site license inquiries and
- evaluation software are available by calling 1-800-667-TBAV or dialing into
- ThunderBYTE Online Information System at 613-930-9999 (2400-19200 baud
- supported).
-
- USA: 300-49 Main Street CANADA: 3304 Second Street East
- Massena, NY 13662 Cornwall, ON K6H 5T5
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