The Race Between Malware and Antivirus Software | Automation ...

Keeping your antivirus software up to date is essential to safeguard your computer against malware and virus attacks, right? A recent article published by MIT?s Technology Review says that it may not be as essential as you think. Your computer may be more prone to attacks than you may like to think.

Antivirus Software: Unreliable?

The antivirus software that we have paid for and long depended on to safeguard our information may not be effective. The technology is running a race with malware programs and malware is winning. More sophisticated and tricky to detect malware comes out every day and this is very concerning to those of us who access the Internet on a daily bases.

Burned by Flame

The Technology Review story focuses on Flame, probably the most complicated examples of malware ever discovered. According to the story, Flame has been copying documents and making recordings of audio, keystrokes, network traffic and Skype calls and taking screenshots of all this activity from the computers it has corrupted. What?s the worst part? Flame has been doing this for at least two years, according to the Technology Review story. And throughout this time, not a single piece of security software discovered this extremely clever bit of malware.

An Industry Under Siege

Wouldn?t it be nice if Flame was the only malware that could get by antivirus software? Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are quite a few that are more than difficult to detect and as soon as antivirus software gets upgraded, malware is developed that challenges it even more. This does not mean you ought not take all measures available to protect your computer, like keeping your antivirus software up to date. You must just be aware that there are viruses out there that may slip through. Hopefully the antivirus industry will eventually catch up with the development of viruses and malware.

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Source: http://blog.automationconceptsandtechnologies.com/2012/the-race-between-malware-and-antivirus-software/

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