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Updated:
- 15 February 2012 3:15:47 PM
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Type:
- Other
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Risk Impact:
- High
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Systems Affected:
- Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000
Behavior
WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories.
The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and behavior-based detection techniques.
Antivirus Protection Dates
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Initial Rapid Release version 27 March 2009
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Latest Rapid Release version 20 April 2010 revision 025
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Initial Daily Certified version 27 March 2009 revision 005
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Latest Daily Certified version 20 April 2010 revision 024
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Initial Weekly Certified release date 1 April 2009
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