The company said the technology, to be known as Spectre, will help to identify new spyware threats by crawling areas on the web and sniffing out new versions of spyware. It will speed the rate at which Sunbelt updates its spyware definitions for its CounterSpy product line.
Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Enterprise suite currently scans for 36 categories of spyware that many anti-virus products do not see or cannot touch. The product uses remote agents to automatically scan end-point machines against a scanning engine running a threat signature database, and allows administrators working at a central management console to access and control threat database updates, recast scan schedules, or set recommended actions to identified spyware threats.
