Doing a little research, I found that spyware detection was introduced in the 2005 edition for Windows.
Norton for Mac touts the ability to detect PC viruses. Can v3 and previous detect spyware? Can v4?
To clarify, I mean spyware was classified under computer viruses when NIS05 was released. NIS protected against viruses, and now Symantec classified spyware as computer viruses.
NIS for Mac v3 was released prior to NIS05. Did v3 have spyware detection capibilities?
It is not a matter is signatures; rather a matter of how Symantec classified spyware. Sorry for the confusion, and the posts. I should have stated this in my last post.
Hi,
Are you asking about Mac spyware or Windows spyware? Like I said before, our virus engine will detect anything in the signatures, so it really is just a matter of what's in the signatures. I don't know how Response classified spyware in the NIS 3 timeframe, but I can say that if it was in our signatures we detected it--whether the product said spyware or not, our antivirus engine detects anything in the signatures regardless of calssification.
It's also important to note that even on the Windows side, the classification was irrelevant--NIS 2006 could detect spyware even before the "AntiSpyware" feature was added. Marketing broke out the spyware feature and made a seperate "AntiSpyware Edition" for marketing purposes, but the virus engine could always detect spyware before the AntiSpyware feature was added. The AntiSpyware feature added signatures for things like adware, joke programs, etc. in addition to bulking up the existing spyware signatures.
Is there something specific you wanted to know about?
Ryan
ryan_mcgann wrote:...The AntiSpyware feature added signatures for things like adware, joke programs, etc. in addition to bulking up the existing spyware signatures.
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Is there someway I can contact "Response"? Because I am talking about the signatures, not the capability.
Restating the original question, was Windows spyware/adware/other PUPs detection included in the signatures for v3 (Mac)?
Symantec Security Response's Web site can be found at http://securityresponse.symantec.com. However I don't believe they keep old signature files around that long, so I am not sure if you will find signatures from NIS 3 on that Web site.
If there is a specific signature, we can look up when that signature was added to the signatures list, but finding old signature files might be a bit hard.
Norton Internet Security 3 for Mac included Norton AntiVirus 9, which was the first to include Windows virus signatures. However,the Windows signatures are created on a seperate build--back then they were built daily, while the Mac signatures were built weekly. So whether the Mac signatures set included a specific spyware signature can't be said with any certainty because the Windows build train might have included the signature and then removed it before we had a chance to add it.
Hope this helps.
Ryan
Norton Internet Security 3.0 was released April 2003. That product release contained Norton AntiVirus 9, which included one Mac spyware definition (MacScan). We did not classify it as spyware, but that signature is for a spyware-like keylogger application. That is the only signature for spyware. During the Norton AntiVirus 10 support cycle, several spyware signatures were added, but that product was not included in Norton internet Security 3.
Thanks,
Ryan
Thank you Ryan. I really appreiciate it.
Doing a little research, I found that spyware detection was introduced in the 2005 edition for Windows.
Norton for Mac touts the ability to detect PC viruses. Can v3 and previous detect spyware? Can v4?