AVIRA The CloudAV™ Architecture: N-Version Antivirus in the Network Cl Project Summary: Antivirus software is one of the most widely used tools for detecting and stopping malicious and unwanted files. However, the long term effectiveness of traditional host-based antivirus is questionable. Antivirus software fails to detect many modern threats and its increasing complexity has resulted in vulnerabilities that are being exploited by malware. We advocate a new model for malware detection on end hosts based on providing antivirus as an in-cloud network service. Better detection of malicious software: Antivirus engines have complementary detection capabilities and a combination of many different engines can improve the overall identification of malicious and unwanted software. CloudAV Publications: CloudAV: N-Version Antivirus in the Network CloudJon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, and Farnam Jahanian Proc. of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium, July 2008. Publications by our research group...
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