What's Heuristics?

[Izzy11201]

Newbie here.
Read the post about the false positive on Win32.Agent.wsg (that's what brought me here), and decided to register.
All that aside, what exactly is "Heuristics" ?........Izzy

[Yodama]

hello,

in this case heuristics describes other methods of file detection other than the classic methods that include attributes such as filename, filesize, hashes, digital signatures, versioning information. Our heuristics go deeper into a file and try to determine its function by reading the actual file contents or parts of it and checks it for certain patterns.

[Izzy11201]

Thankyou.....Izzy