Antivirus new method: Cloud computing for antivirus software decompression

In an era of rampant internet viruses, it is not enough to rely on traditional anti-virus tools. The virus feature library in the "cloud", not only can save the virus caused by the proliferation of hardware and software resources costs, but also to obtain more efficient virus prevention capabilities.

Panda Activescan 2.0 scanning service based on cloud computing

The IT giants, led by Google and IBM, have launched the "battle" of Cloud computing, the cloud, which brings together tens of thousands of of computers, can do both storage and computing, with immediate updating and high-performance risk scanning, and perhaps a new way out for virus prevention if the traditional anti-virus approach has reached its limit.

The limit of antivirus

Germany's AV testing laboratory in 2008 1 to February, has found more than 1 million new viruses, and it is expected this year, the number of new viruses will be more than 10 million, the number of new viruses in 2009 will be more than 20 million species.

Traditionally, the traditional anti-virus technology relies on the virus detection rate, and the virus detection rate is based on the virus signature and feature library, which is to find the signature in the computer program and then cubby with the virus. When the antivirus tool faces 20 million new viruses, it scans the computer once and requires about 1GB of memory space.

Oriental Micro Point company General Manager and chief engineer Xu that the current mainstream PC memory is 2GB, where the operating system and other applications already occupy a large amount of memory space, if the feature library for 1GB memory, the computer will likely not run the operating system and other applications.

It can be seen that the transmission of the virus means and channels have exceeded the ability of anti-virus software boundaries. From the major anti-virus software manufacturers released the latest security reports can also see the virus difficult to prevent the reality.

If this trend cannot be technically curbed, there will be two consequences, traditional virus collection channels overwhelmed, in a short period of time to collect the necessary samples, and limited to the existing virus analysis ability, even if the collection of enough virus samples, a large amount of virus can make the virus analysis personnel at a loss, This leads to the survival of anti-virus software "signature scanning" technology is facing severe challenges.

Hope Tatsu Information Security Technology Co., Ltd. general manager Jin Yu said anti-virus software can not effectively solve all security problems. The threat from the internet has indeed shifted from computer viruses to malware programs and Trojans. In this form of threat transformation, antivirus software in the short term will not be eliminated, but the threat of solutions and traditional concepts must be managed to change to be able to obtain new living space.

CSO, chief strategic executive at Panda Global, said the client could not keep the virus signature library by implementing a virus killing through cloud computing. With the use of cloud computing technology, the size of the installer can be much smaller compared to the hundreds of MB of antivirus software installers.

Cloud computing is in a start-up phase, with the main realization of internet-based personal services. Large and small companies provide a wide range of cloud computing services, from software applications to networked storage, from virus killing to mail filtering.

Cloud computing Antivirus implementation method is actually not complex, in essence can be understood as the use of the Internet and through the browser to provide the intended software services. These services can be obtained at any time, any place, through any internet equipment. But for most users, this is still a network and must rely on the network.

Antivirus in the Clouds

Bill said that the company called Cloud computing Services "Collective FDI" (collective artificial Intelligence), through the cloud of host groups to collect and store end-user and Internet applications in the behavior patterns, records and new malicious program samples. Every day through the monitoring of tens of thousands of sites, analysis and collection of more than 8TB of data content, has been officially used.

Cloud computing Anti-Virus technology no longer requires the client to retain the virus library features, all information will be stored on the Internet. When the end users in any corner of the world connect to the Internet, and the cloud server to maintain real-time contact, when the discovery of abnormal behavior or viruses and other risks, automatically submitted to the cloud server group, by the cloud computing technology focused analysis and processing.

After that, cloud computing technology generates a deal on risk and distributes it globally to clients. The client can automatically block interception, killing and other operations.

Bill argues that cloud computing anti-virus will be a trend in the future. In the way of cloud computing, whenever a client discovers that an exception is automatically sent to the cloud, the client can be secured to the maximum extent possible.

Placing virus signatures in the cloud will not only save the cost of hardware and software resources caused by the virus flooding, but also achieve more efficient virus prevention capabilities.

Bill said the company is preparing to release a truly cloud-based antivirus client product this October, tentatively titled The Nano AV, which is only 10MB in size, using cloud server clusters around the world to detect and analyze viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and phishing.

According to the reporter understands, the current user can pass Panda Activescan 2.0. This cloud-based Internet free scanning tool scans, erases, and cleans the latest viruses, Trojans, and spyware in the entire computer system, from disks, compressed files, and e-mails.

According to data from the Panda Activescan 2.0 online for several months, 23% of computers, even if they have installed antivirus software that resides in the system, and keep updating the virus every day, are still vulnerable to the virus infection, proving that in an age of rampant internet viruses, Relying on traditional anti-virus tools is not enough.