What is a heuristic virus

My antivirus program detects a heuristic virus, what is it?

Heuristic analysis is a method implemented in many antivirus programs. It is designet to detect previously-unknown viruses and new variants of current viruses, before they infect your computer. This means that the anti-virus program try to "guess" which programs that may harm your computer. It also means, that there may be chances of your antivirus catching a false positive, putting "good" programs to guarantee. This often happens to hacks, because they are made to inject into a process.

More about heuristic analysis
- Wikipedia about heuristic analysis
- "Virus-specific" Antivirus Products - Common Questions - With Answers
- "Glossary - heuristics

On Tobys Counter-Strike, we only post hacks that we believe contains no virus or malware at all! All cheats and hacks are scanned for virus/malware, and if a heuristic virus is found, we use our common sense. This of course means that you cannot be 100 % safe, but that is the chance you have to take if you want to cheat. Antoher protection is that our host use a script that scan files on the server, and if a virus is found, they will block the thread. If you are in doubt, use a sandbox environment to test your hacks.

More about sandboxing
- Wikipedia about Sandbox (computer security)

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