New Sophos technology stops unknown malware threats before they execute.

Sophos have announced the availability of its Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS), which proactively identifies and blocks programs that behave suspiciously before they execute. Sophos's Behavioral Genotype Protection, which has been fully integrated into all of Sophos's anti-virus solutions, can detect unknown spyware and malware without a false positive problem and without the need to install any additional software.

Sophos's Behavioral Gentype Protection has been developed by Sophos's global network of research and development centres. Unlike competing products, which monitor running code and intercept suspicious behaviour once it has occurred, Sophos's HJPS technology completely prevents malware from executing, identifying it at the gateway, on fileservers and at the endpoint. The malicious code is intercepted before it can cause any harm.