A new cloud-based approach to antivirus (AV) , anti malware which, according to them, provides better detection of malware than traditional ntivirus software.
Host-based antivirus software is becoming increasingly ineffective, especially against recent malware threats. Their tests showed the average length of time to detect new threats by a single antivirus engine was 48 days. Moreover, the complexity of the software has increased the risk of vulnerabilities in the antivirus engines themselves, which can be used by attackers to compromise a host.The technique improves malware detection while moving the complexity of antivirus engines to a network service. Isolating the engines within virtualized environments eliminates the impact of vulnerabilities in AV engines.
Small test carried by researchers
CloudAV in a production deployment on a campus network in computer labs spanning multiple departments over six months. They ran 10 antivirus engines including Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc. and Trend Micro Inc., and two behavioral detection programs simultaneously against 7,220 malware samples. CloudAV had a detection rate of 98% against the data set while a single AV engine had a detection rate of 82%. Against recent threats, CloudAV recorded an 88% detection rate compared to a single engine’s 52%.
There are advantages and also disadvanges
Advanages cloud based antivirus:
1. No need to install large sized anti virus.
2. Total time consumed for scaning is reduced.
3. Detection level is increased drasticaly.
4. low usage of disk and space .
5. Can be implemented on mobile devices .
6. No more definition files
7. much more … to list
Disadvantages cloud based antivirus :
1. you need to have strong LAN bandwidth and support .
2 . Client is corupted or malfunctions you are totaly vulnerable .
3 . more need to be figured out…
list of cloud anti virus and anti malware software
1.Panda Cloud Antivirus
Panda Cloud Antivirus, the industry’s first and most comprehensive free cloud-based anti-virus that protects consumers PCs against the latest malware, spyware, rootkits and viruses, today emerged from beta after six months of user testing. To experience the expanded performance and support capabilities of Cloud Antivirus, as well as benefit from both online and offline security protection, consumers can download the free service from Panda Security
More info click Here
2.MalAware
Idea behind MalAware was to create build the smallest possible (1 mb) and the fastest possible malware scanner (scan <1 min) that will only provide an indication of whether a PC is infected with malware or not.
It should still get the full Emsi Software technology with more than 3 million known nasties. Not an easy task – but our developers have found ways and means to meet these seemingly impossible combinable requirements. By combining a strongly limited version of the signature database of known malware paths with a cloud based scan of all active processes, MalAware achieves a similar accuracy as a-squared Anti-Malware.
More info click Here
Currently both supporting windows platform well linux is also coming in big way and we are waiting …
More to come ….
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