p2pnet news view | Security:- McAfee’s Artemis desktop security application, “could detect and remove a new threat that was only minutes old,” says CNET News.

The application, “means instant detection,” the story has McAfee Avert Labs’ Dave Marcus saying.

“McAfee’s use of Artemis is similar to Trend Micro’s use of cloud-based computing to analyze and produce new signature files within 15 minutes in that software on the desktop, then pass suspicious files to a larger, remote database,” says the story, going on Marcus says the difference is that McAfee plans to use a desktop communication channel already built into the product, so existing users won’t need to download new software.

Does that mean the product phones home to McAfee?

Not according to Marcus.

Whenever the software, “finds something suspicious and not in its signature database, it’ll ping the larger database back at McAfee Avert Labs to get the signature needed,” says CNET. “The files sent back and forth are minuscule, he added.

Hopefully, Artemis will be more successful than the company’s SiteAdvisor. It doesn’t seem able to tell the difference between a website and malware.

CNET News – McAfee brings nearly instant malware updates, September 8, 2008
website and malware – McAfee targets p2pnet. Again., August 28, 2008

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