Updated: February 15, 2012 3:15:47 PM
Type: Other
Risk Impact: High
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
- Initial Rapid Release version March 27, 2009
- Latest Rapid Release version April 20, 2010 revision 025
- Initial Daily Certified version March 27, 2009 revision 005
- Latest Daily Certified version April 20, 2010 revision 024
- Initial Weekly Certified release date April 1, 2009