This no-parsing/ParsingSafe technology is actually Sandboxing [1].

BTW they keep repeating this:
...
In order to protect the aps-AV itself from attacks, it has been
completely written in highly secure managed code ( C#) , thereby
reducing its attack surface to an absolute minimum.
...

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security)>

Ed <http://blog.eonsec.com>

On Feb 19, 2008 3:19 AM, Faas M. Mathiasen
<faas.m.mathiasen (at) googlemail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> ...
> Apparently they happen, as the guys from n.runs seem to have invented
> some sort of solution for this problem, rendering attacks on AV
> impossible (??) they call it aps-AV :
> "Protects your company from malware threats (Worms, Virus, Trojans..),
> aps-AV reuses your existing Anti-Virus software and supports multiple
> Anti-Virus engines. aps-AV increases the malware detection rate
> through the diversity and heuristics of these multiple engines.
> However unlike the competition, aps-AV does not increase the remotely
> exploitable attack surface."
>
> http://www.nruns.com/_en/aps/
> http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/aps-AV-Solution-Paper-EN.pdf
>
> ...

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