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White Paper AV products which implement in-the-cloud technology have already been released and there seems little doubt that by the end of the year, this technology will be widely accepted. The difference between cloud computing and... [13 Nov 2009]
Beyond Signature-Based Antivirus: New Threat Vectors Drive Need for Proactive Antimalware Protection
White Paper Forward-looking companies are beginning to realize they cannot rely upon reactive signature-based Antivirus (AV) technology alone. Real-time behavior analysis AV technologies, using heuristic algorithms,... [12 Nov 2009]
What a Waste - The Anti-Virus Industry DoS-Ing Itself
White Paper AV vendors attempting to keep up with the current flood of malware are faced with some daunting problems. The number of incoming customer submissions, honeypot and crawler collections, collection-swapping samples and... [12 Nov 2009]
The Impact of Disk Fragmentation on Servers
White Paper Through a series of precise performance test results, you'll discover the surprising difference defragmentation makes in key areas of server operation such as time to copy a file, open a document, backup and AV scan. [06 Nov 2009]
Fake antivirus claiming tens of millions of scalps
News A Finjan report from March estimated that fake AV distributors can make more than $10,000 per day. Malware posing as antivirus software is spreading fast with tens of millions of computers infected each month, according... [29 Jul 2009]
Revealing Packed Malware
White Paper By using executable packers, modern malware can completely bypass personal firewalls and AntiVirus (AV) scanners. Security researchers and AV products must be able to unpack and inspect the payloads... [01 Jul 2009]
The (Life And) Death of the Pattern File
White Paper The fact that those of inside this industry haven't made pure AV scanners in more than a decade is apparently beside the point. A recent paper makes a point of claiming that the anti-virus industry and anti-virus... [30 Jun 2009]
Heuristic Analysis - Detecting Unknown Viruses
White Paper Some of the most persistent myths in computing relate to virus and anti-virus (AV) technology. The widely-held belief that AV software can only detect specific, known viruses has been around since the... [20 Jun 2009]
The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
White Paper Signature-based solutions such as "Conventional" Anti-Virus (AV) and Snort signatures are largely reactive, but remain effective in many cases, especially where supplemented with proactive solutions such as ESET's... [20 Jun 2009]
Toward Automatic Discovery of Malware Signature for Anti-Virus Cloud Computing
White Paper With the popularity and the variety of zero-day malware over the Internet, generating their signatures for detecting via Anti-Virus (AV) scan engines becomes an important reactive security function. However,... [20 Jun 2009]
Panda Managed Office Protection: Switching From AV to SaaS
White Paper SMBs know they are exposed to the same risks and subject to the same regulations as large organizations. And with more threats in circulation, their protection requirements are increasingly complex: There are more threats than ever... [13 Jun 2009]
Clean Data Profiling
White Paper The volume of malicious software being created at present is so high that it has triggered discussion in the AV industry as to whether a blacklisting model is feasible in the future. In this context, clean data sets are... [29 May 2009]
Forefront Management Console Part 2
White Paper In this, the second webcast in this series, the presenter demonstrates how to create a scheduled job to download AV signature updates, configure the general options for a server and to modify the operations settings for... [27 Apr 2009]
Intrusion Prevention Systems
White Paper Whilst it is true that firewalls, routers, IDS devices and even AV gateways all have intrusion prevention technology included in some form; we believe that there are sufficient grounds to create a new market sector for... [16 Mar 2009]
15 Minutes to Setup AXIGEN With AV and AS
White Paper This paper illustrates a situation where one needs to set up their own mail server (be it one's home mail server, or a small office one). It actually shows that, if using an integrated service mail server, anyone can do the job, all in a... [13 Feb 2009]
