F-Secure releases DeepGuard 2.0

BANGALORE, INDIA: F-Secure Corporation’s Wellbeing 2009 family of consumer IT security products deliver the world’s fastest protection against new online threats and set new standards in Internet security.

Instead of just using one-way comparisons of a suspicious program against white lists and black lists, the F-Secure real-time protection network uses intelligent nodes with behavioral analysis capability to greatly increase the efficiency of this ‘in-the-cloud’ approach.

F-Secure Wellbeing 2009

The F-Secure Wellbeing 2009 family is an advanced collection of security solutions that enables consumers to enjoy connected life to the full. The F-Secure Wellbeing 2009 family includes the following products and services:

- F-Secure Internet Security 2009         

- F-Secure Anti-Virus 2009

- F-Secure Home Server Security 2009

- F-Secure Health Check

- Online Wellbeing portal

Customers are protected with a service that is faster than anything seen before in blocking new threats, more accurate in identifying malicious software and fully automated with no need for user attention.

DeepGuard is a behavior based detection engine designed to block new malware from infecting a system by analysing how the file behaves when it is executed on the client computer.

DeepGuard 2.0 adds the real-time protection network capability to the local analysis. When a new potentially malicious program appears anywhere in the world, the first participating F-Secure protected computers that encounter it take a fingerprint of the file and instantly query F-Secure’s highly automated security labs to see if the file can be allowed to run.

It only takes fractions of a second to query the server for the status of a file and for DeepGuard to analyse the behavior of the executable locally. For confirmed new threats, F-Secure Labs can now activate complete protection within 60 seconds for the whole global community of computers using DeepGuard 2.0 technology.

In this way participating computers of the real-time protection network help provide information that instantly benefits the security of the whole community, bypassing the time it has traditionally taken to send out virus database updates.

Pirkka Palomäki, chief technology officer, F-Secure Corporation, said: “We're introducing another industry first with the real-time protection network that complements the traditional reactive and proactive technologies. It dramatically shortens the time it takes to protect our customers from the moment we find completely new malware."

"When our users try to execute run suspicious programs, the trustworthiness of such files is automatically queried from our servers – in fractions of a second. No other vendor has such ‘in-the-cloud’ protection for consumers deployed globally. This is a great example of our continuous innovations in the fight against the increasingly professional online criminals, who are producing more targeted and previously unseen viruses at an unprecedented rate,” he added.