WS.Reputation.1 summary technical details removal Printer Friendly Page Updated: February 15, 2012 3:15:47 PM Type: Other Risk Impact: High Systems Affected: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Behavior WS.Reputation.1 is a detection for files that have a low reputation score based on analyzing data from Symantec’s community of users and therefore are likely to be security risks. Detections of this type are based on Symantec’s reputation-based security technology. Because this detection is based on a reputation score, it does not represent a specific class of threat like adware or spyware, but instead applies to all threat categories. The reputation-based system uses "the wisdom of crowds" (Symantec’s tens of millions of end users) connected to cloud-based intelligence to compute a reputation score for an application, and in the process identify malicious software in an entirely new way beyond traditional signatures and behavior-based detection techniques. Antivirus Protection Dates Initial Rapid Release version March 27, 2009 Latest Rapid Release version April 20, 2010 revision 025 Initial Daily Certified version March 27, 2009 revision 005 Latest Daily Certified version April 20, 2010 revision 024 Initial Weekly Certified release date April 1, 2009 Click here for a more detailed description of Rapid Release and Daily Certified virus definitions.