Filed under: Security, Windows, Open Source
Winpooch: Open source anti-malware for Windows
by Jordan Running Dec 6th 2005 at 3:50PM
There's not much to say about Winpooch apart from the facts: "Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time." It hooks into Windows to let you prevent certain processes from making changes to system files rather than the signature method used by most commercial spyware products. It also integrates with ClamWin to provide virus protection. I'd be interested to see how well it works, but regardless it's nice to see some more open source action in the Windows security sector.[Via Digg]
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Fabulo said 5:27PM on 12-06-2005
This is the idea of a "white list" instead of cataloguing ALL known threats and making signature files, just detect unwanted behavior. Brilliant.
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