Reason #1: Basic Model

Anti-virus software vendors still rely on yesterday’s methods for solving today’s problems: they wait for next virus to wreak havoc and then produce a solution. That worked for a long time when a virus would take years to traverse world. But in this fast-paced Interet-crazed world we live in today, this type of solution is no longer applicable. Now a virus can traverse world and infect millions of computers in minutes.

In good old days a virus traveled by floppy disk. Put a floppy in your computer and save some data to it and virus would infect floppy. Then unwittingly put infected floppy in another computer and presto new computer would become infected. (I’m skimming over a lot of detail here to make a point). So virus’ progress was slow and steady. Anti-virus vendors had time on their side. They had time to get a copy of virus, dissect it, run it through a series of tests to come up with a signature string (see below for definition), put string into a database of strings to search for when scanning your hard drive (and floppies) and release new database to public. Ten years ago this system worked very well.

But now everyone is connected via Internet. Now, using email as a transport point, it doesn’t take years to gather momentum, instead it takes a matter of minutes. And here is where model breaks. Step back and ask yourself following question: if vendors can catch “known and unknown viruses” as their literature states, how then is it that we continue to have virus problems?

The answer lies in fact that virus authors have been more creative in coming up with new ways to infect and wreak havoc and software industry has not responded in kind, preferring to stay embedded in its old fashioned methodologies.

Why don’t old ways work any more, you might ask? It’s relatively simple. Let’s go through steps.

A virus author unleashes NewVirus via email. He mass mails his virus to thousands of people. Some, not all, unwittingly open attachment thinking it’s from a friend or subject is so enticing that they are fooled into opening it without thinking it’s a problem (cf. nude pictures of Anna Kournikova). The email attachment immediately starts emailing everyone in his contact list and embeds itself into his operating system so that it’s activated every time he turns on his computer.

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