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June 13, 2006 - Behavior-based shield aims to nail Zero Day threats

"These days, what appears normal online; a greeting card, bank site, attachment, etc. may in fact be a trick that opens the door for online crime," enthuses Privacyware honcho Greg Salvato. "Dynamic Security Agent offers proactive protection against the latest techniques used to gain illegal access and control of computing systems."

To that end, Salvato says, Dynamic Security Agent 1.0 (DSA) works alongside existing virus/spyware scanners and firewall, protecting Windows from viruses and malware as well.

It spots hacker and cyber criminal attempts to inject malicious code, install rootkits, Trojans and spyware, spoof IPs, bypass firewalls and generally gain access, control and/or damage systems and private data.

DSA blocks, quarantines and provides alerts for untrusted incoming and outgoing application and process-specific web traffic. It also models and monitors system behavior to identify and block activity characteristic of known malware, hacking, phishing and other threat types as well as activity which deviates from typical patterns beyond acceptable levels.

All in all, DSA sounds similar other tools we've reviewed. We haven't tried it yet, but the worst we heard from the Wilders Security Forums, was that DSA's too easily removed with Task Manager, and it doesn't play nice in virtual environments.

And to think it does all of that protecting with nary a digital signature. Who woulda thought?

DSA is free only for non-business use. Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2000/2003.