Heuristics based antivirus has been around since the 90s. Vendors have pushed it significantly more during the past five years or so. Supposedly, it has become

Heuristics based antivirus has been around since the 90s. Vendors have pushed it significantly more during the past five years or so. Supposedly, it has become much better. The promise has always been to detect future malware. However there has always been a fundamental problem with them. Malware authors have access to them too. They won't release anything that's detected by the tools they care about. Heuristics gets improved, but the end user ends up with a patch cycle anyway. That doesn't mean they are useless, just oversold. Machine learning antivirus sounds like more of the same.