F-Secure Internet Security 2009 comes with F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0, introducing network-based instant recognition of both safe and malicious software, which is able to protect computers in 60 seconds from the first confirmation of a new threat, claims the company.

Deepguard 2.0’is designed to recognize both safe and malicious software instantly by using a real time protection. The package includes Internet security 2009, Anti-Virus 2009, Home Server Security 2009, Health Check and Online Wellbeing portal.
``When a new potential threat appears, the first computers that encounter it anywhere in the world will instantly inform the highly automated F-Secure security labs. For confirmed threats we are able to add complete protection in 60 seconds. After this, all computers with this technology query the network, and are instantly protected. This cut short the hours it typically takes to send out database updates’’, claims F-Secure.

According to the company, F-Secure is the first anti-virus vendor in the world to release a real-time protection network for consumers that enables global protection within seconds from the first confirmation of a new threat. F-Secure DeepGuard 2.0, uses "in-the-cloud" computing to provide instant protection against new threats.

DeepGuard is a behavior-based detection engine designed to block new malware from infecting a system by analyzing how the file behaves when it is executed on the client computer. Basically, instead of just using one-way comparisons of a suspicious program against white lists and black lists, this new technology uses intelligent nodes with behavioral analysis capability.