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What is Quttera?

Quttera is a signatureless Malicious Content Detection System that has been designated especially for detection shellcodes, malicious executable code and vulnerability exploits embedded into computer media and information files such as movies, images, documents and etc...

Quttera implements patent pending signatureless algorithm capable of detection "zero day" malicious threats without any prior information (threat signature) identifying detected malware. Quttera's investigation mechanism does not rely on any signatures database but either on fully heuristic and signatureless detection method which is able to detect existence of "zero-day" software vulnerability exploits into computer information and media files before they compromise the hosted computer.


Quttera is not just another antivirus solution!

Quttera is not an anti-virus solution and does not intend to be used instead of ordinary anti-virus solution. Quttera is unable and should not be used to detect Viruses and Trojans spreads as common computer programs or executable files. Our intention is not to replace other anti-virus and anti-malware tools, but to provide a new weapon to the user's arsenal capable to prevent software vulnerability exploitations.


What Quttera is used for?

Software vulnerability is a defect in software ( commonly called "bug") which provides possibility for dedicated peace of executable code (called a vulnerability exploit)to gain an unauthorized access to other digital resources.

"Zero-day" threats are always unknown and undisclosed or newly discovered software vulnerabilities. In addition, a software provider is not able to fix them immediately with the discovery and it takes time before a security patch will be released in the world to sort it out.

Anti-Virus providers are not able to detect this threat. After a while, when the Anti-Virus providers start to detect it out, they may detect only malware that uses this specific Zero-day threats attack.

Note: Anti-Virus providers are not detecting exploits and vulnerability. Subsequently, the aim is to detect a malware that is using an exploit or vulnerability. However, till information security companies and software manufacture release necessary fixing, malware is able to spread from one computer to another and make the installed Anti-Virus programs practically ineffective.

Media players, web browsers, email clients and document viewers contain unknown and undisclosed security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by especially formatted documents, media files or pictures that include the embedded vulnerability exploit.

The malware detection approach that based on digital signatures has reached a limit to protect computers form threats, because Anti-Virus providers are based on daily signature update or/and hourly signature update but the "zero-day" malware attacks are still coming through.

Quttera provides fully heuristic and signatureless algorithm capability of detecting the disclosed and undisclosed security vulnerability exploits that are hidden in digital documents and media files.


Why Quttera is crucial for you?

Malware that is hidden (software vulnerability exploits) within media and information files is one of the fastest and undetectable approaches to propagate these threats around the world. Such threats can be simply distributed through email clients, P2P networks, instant messaging applications, internet downloaders or from internet sites. Once, such threat gains control, it will have full freedom to exploit the infected computer for its own purposes (see botnets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet).


 


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