What is the difference between real time protection and HIPS?

Question

don't they both do pretty much the same thing?

Answer 1

Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) is a security technology that protects computers from unidentified viruses and suspicious behavior.

I wont bother with Realtime as you know what

that is.....but below is the difference

The key words are unidentified and suspicious

and of course this can mean a lot of false positives....

which is what many Q on here are.

Different A/V will each have their own thoughts

on what is suspicious.

Realtime will only look for whats in their Database.

See the link below for further info:

So to sum up ...no they do not do the same thing.