Traditional, signature-based security solutions only react to known threats. The problem is that signature based solutions can only detect known attacks with identification signatures that need to be available in the users‘ system at the time of the attack, which often takes a few hours. With the speed the new malware can spread today, the risk that you become a victim of a new, so far unknown infiltration is too real. The solution of ESET is based upon the unique ThreatSense® technology utilizing a new generation of advanced heuristics. This technology offers proactive protection against newest infiltrations in the early hours of their spreading, while the experts in ESET’s labs work on creating of a new signature which is to be added to the virus signatures database of NOD32.

The ThreatSense® technology combines various techniques of testing based upon heuristic analysis including emulation of a full 32-bit code and exact and generic signatures. One of NOD32‘s key strengths is its ability to utilize different scanning techniques in a parallel fashion to maximize performance.