Why antivirus technology inefficiency?

Anti-virus technology is currently ineffective, because they can only prevent known viruses but cannot resist intruders who have not been "named". Future anti-virus technology is hoping to get that capability.

Current antivirus technology can be likened to a "helpless man". It failed to prevent the entry of malware into the PC. It is the failure that has contributed many times to the security event "floating family" on the newspaper.

C Thanks to the easy spread of viruses, new hackers have extremely favorable conditions, helping them to "kidnap" a series of PCs, steal personal information and perform fraudulent actions online.

Not only that, the system of "kidnapped" PCs is also an endless resource of hackers. Some hackers have "assembled" hundreds of thousands of "kidnapped" PCs to build a network called botnets. This is a tool that helps hackers perform denial-of-service attacks, phishing scams or distribute spam.

The global rate of virus infection is very high. Computer virus is no longer a "disease" but has become a global "pandemic".

For home and business PC users, infection with the virus seems to have become "chronic disease".

In June 2006, Microsoft unveiled a 15-month trial of the Malicious Software Removal Tool, saying that up to 62% of the 5.7 million family and business PCs scanned with a tool that infects a software certain toxic. 20% of them continue to infect malware after being scanned and cleaned.

The statistics from the 2005 Yankee Group Security Leaders & Laggards Survey report that although 99% of businesses have implemented security applications, up to 62% of them become victims of computer viruses. This situation in large enterprises is not much better than home users. Is it possible for large businesses to recover after being infected a little faster.

"The burglar alarm" is broken

Why is anti-virus technology so inefficient? First of all, let's take a look at the newly announced number of Teams responding quickly to AusCERT emergency computer conditions.

According to AusCERT, most antivirus software today can only prevent 20% of new viruses from appearing. The remaining 80% is still "passed". AusCERT refused to disclose the identity of those anti-virus software. However, surely computer users are no stranger to names like Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro .

Here the software problem is better than the other software is not worth it. Simply because when deciding to spread the virus widely, the virus programmer himself tested his virus against those antivirus software.

That's why today's antivirus technology works extremely poorly, and perhaps it will never be possible. Security vendors have sold users "a burglar alarm" only to warn users when the thief has successfully hacked into their home.

Meanwhile, your actual need is to have a bell capable of alerting you whenever any person tries to break into your home. It seems to be a very simple thing, but for security software, it is still a goal that may be far from being achieved.

The first security company launched a product that can meet the actual needs of users as SecureWave. The next step is a series of other names such as AppSense, Bit9, and Savant Protection.

These software focus on identifying malware by managing a list of allowed software - whitelists - and completely blocking software that is not on that list. If necessary, users can allow software that is not on the white list to run in quarantine mode (to prevent viruses). Thus, even if it is dangerous, the software will not harm the system.

The question has not been answered yet

Most SecureWave, AppSense or Savant Protection products . only focus on the enterprise security market. But perhaps the time of SecureWave software is coming along with the "fading" of today's inefficient anti-virus software lines. The market of home users, small businesses . will open the door to welcome these new virus prevention products.

Symantec CEO John Thompson last October announced loudly: "Computer virus and worm problems have been resolved". Unfortunately, that "big statement" came at exactly the same time that the virus infection rate was at its worst ever, while cyber criminals constantly took advantage of exploiting weaknesses. That to bring them huge profits.

But Mr. Thompson was somehow right. But not that Symantec solved that problem. In the field of technical solutions "white list" has begun to be deployed more widely in the enterprise environment.

However, the ongoing development of cybercriminals today is still an ideal condition for the emergence and rise of many anti-virus software and malware.

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