Quick digression on “false positives”: if a vendor arrives at a unique string that just happens to be embedded in Microsoft Word, then every time a user runs a scan of their hard drive, Microsoft Word will be identified as being infected with NewVirus. Users will uninstall Word and re-install only to learn that they are still infected. There will be complaints; vendor will be forced to re-assess signature string and re-release his list of strings and admit error.

Typically signature strings are matched against a whole boatload of commonplace software just to protect against this occurrence, but it still happens and vendors learn to add new software to their test beds.

OK, so vendor has arrived at a signature string. Next? Implement string into their string database so that when their scanners are scanning they will match what’s on your hard drive to what’s in database. After database has been updated they release database to their customers in what’s commonly called a “push” where they send updates to their primary users.

If you did not buy into this service, you must know enough to log into your anti-virus vendor and update your software so that you stay current.

So where are we? The bad guy –or problem teenager- has unleashed NewVirus. NewVirus has infected thousands of computers; vendors have been alerted; NewVirus continues to infect; solutions are achieved and “pushed” to corporate clients; NewVirus continues to infect hundreds and thousands of computers; corporate clients breathe a sigh of relief and alert their users as to new threat.

Thousands, if not millions, of computers become infected and need to be cleaned because best way to solve virus problem is to wait for each new virus to come along and solve on a case by case basis.

But if you sat back and said: what if? What if you categorized all things a virus can do (or could do), built a series of computers to allow any email attachment or program to have full rein of a computer (much like it would have on your own computer – such a computer is called “honeypot”) and then analyze that computer for unwelcome behavior?

That would be a true pre-emptive strike against all malicious software. This is behavior-based model. Such a model would actually protect you unknown viruses, along with all known 70,000 viruses.

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