Paper Topic:

ANTI-VIRUS SCHEME

Running Head : ANTI-VIRUS SCHEME

Anti-virus scheme

Name

Institution

Date : 12 July

Introduction

The existence of the antivirus products has resulted into the need for antivirus products evaluations . The antivirus product assessment contains the definitions of specific terms and greatly differs from the software evaluations

The end users as well as typical magazine evaluators are short of accurate evaluations of the vital antivirus products parts due to limited skills and resources in the estimation of the strengths for antivirus products for virus detection and prevention . This has

created the need for improved antivirus products assessment for virus detection maintenance (Gordon , 1997

A scheme for antivirus products evaluation in a changing threat environment

The major requirement in the evaluation of the antivirus products is the availability of maintained test bed for virus . The analyzer for antivirus , need to be aware and familiar with collection contents , the working mechanism of the antivirus products and their respective vulnerabilities

This requires the analyzer to be acquainted with the mechanisms of antivirus products in virus prevention and the attacking nature of viruses to the antivirus products . All these issues make the evaluation of antivirus product very necessary in security management for a changing threat environment (Helenius , 2002

Antivirus products

Detecting known , preventing known , detecting unknown , prevent unknown viruses

Test bed Vulnerability analysis

Multi-partition virus , File virus , Boot sector virus , Polymorphic virus Script virus

Fig . The computer- based antivirus product and virus detection evaluation

In the above illustration , every product type needs a distinct analysis approach . The...

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