Hybrid Trojans and viruses are becoming more anti-virus software, turning to active prevention

Source: Internet
Author: User

This week, the IRC port virus is the latest variant. infected computers will become "botnets" and are controlled by remote commands by hackers. According to a press conference yesterday, rising company said that the number of new viruses on the Internet is growing rapidly. Nearly 0.4 million of the new viruses last year and this year are the sum of the total number of viruses in the past two decades, in addition, nearly eight of the new viruses are mixed Trojan viruses.

"In the past, computer viruses were divided into Trojans, backdoors, and worms. However, with the development of virus technology, various types of viruses gradually become mutually integrated ." According to rising engineers, many of the new viruses have the characteristics of worms at the same time. For example, the poison King "Pago", which recently appeared, is classified as a worm virus, but after intruding into users' computers, it will download dozens of Trojan viruses from the Internet and steal accounts such as online games and online banking. At present, the entire security industry is transforming from traditional Anti-Virus products to "both attack and defense". More and more anti-virus products will apply the "active defense" technology and target new types of Trojan viruses, we will continue to improve the traditional "scanning and removal of signatures" technology.

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