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Beginning in February, Symantec’s will provide Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR) as a free add-on to Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2007 products.  According to this article in InfoWorldThis zero-day protection tool will look at the behavior of programs running on the computer in order to decide whether they are malicious versus Symantec’s traditional signature-based antivirus protection techniques, which compare the program’s code to a database of known malware. The software is based on technology received from its acquisition of WholeSecurity in 2005.