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Solving Problems Of Virus Definition Files - A Triz Perspective, Umakant Mishra
Solving Problems Of Virus Definition Files - A Triz Perspective, Umakant Mishra
Umakant Mishra
Signature scanning is the most popular method of virus scanning and is adopted by all anti-virus programs. Signature scanning is capable of detecting more than 80% of viruses. It uses a simple logic and uses less memory and system resources. Although it has a lot of advantages, it has one big disadvantage. It requires the virus signature to be extracted by the experts and stored in a database called “virus signature database”. This virus signature database has to be updated by the anti-virus developers and the end users periodically in order to deal with the latest viruses.
A typical virus …