Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

Conclusions

With the proliferation of network worms, some people think plain old viruses are obsolete. Yet, despite this mistaken perception, malware authors continue to create and spread viruses, and even more important, they incorporate virus characteristics into other types of malicious code. The idea that software can propagate by making copies of itself and by attaching itself to benign programs is powerful. These properties allow malware to reach deep within the network infrastructure. Whether through floppies, USB keychain drives, or networks, malicious code continues to find its way through our security perimeters. The arms race between the defenders and the attackers grows ever nastier, especially when the techniques we've discussed ...