Heuristic Intrusion Detection and Prevention System

The Heuristic Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (HIDPS) is a system that can intelligently scan for malicious behavior from a program either within the system, or trying to access the system. The aforementioned system contains no `Virus definitions' as such but works “Intelligently” using heuristics and online scanning techniques. The proposed system will be able to analyze the program and make decisions about its nature i.e. malicious or non-malicious. Depending upon the nature of the program access is granted or revoked. The system does not rely on time to time updates or any kind of updates at all, reason being the use of heuristics and online scanning techniques. It functions as a standalone script which can be a complete security suite in itself. Since every active process and network packet is monitored, the possibility of rootkits or Trojans remaining undetected is small.