Signature-less anomaly detection

[zerohearne]

Hello! just curious, what are the basics behind signature-less anomaly detection?  Is it a new layer of security? What does it do? What does it protect against?

[exile360]

Greetings

Yes, it's a new feature that enhances both our realtime Malware protection component as well as our scanner.  It is a signature-less malware detection component that relies on intelligent algorithms and machine learning to detect new and unknown/never-before-seen threats.  You can think of it as sort of a next-generation heuristics component.  For the moment we haven't fully activated it yet as it is still in "learning mode" in order to increase its detection capabilities and efficiency as well as to learn to ensure that it will avoid false positives, but soon we will activate it fully (this will happen automatically at some point in the future with one of our updates) and it will be online to guard your system alongside the other layers already active in Malwarebytes.

[Firefox]

@exile360, will users get notified when such feature gets fully activated?

[exile360]

Honestly I'm not sure how that's going to be handled.

[Firefox]

Ok we shall wait and see then...