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Is Anti-Virus A Necessary Evil?, Umakant Mishra
Is Anti-Virus A Necessary Evil?, Umakant Mishra
Umakant Mishra
While everybody is becoming more and more dependent on computers there are some unscrupulous people who continuously try to misuse the technology and get illegal and illegitimate benefit out of this sophisticated environment. Today the Internet is like a busy street or open market place where you find almost everything you want. As there are some obvious risks when you stand or move in a busy street such as you are likely to be pick pocketed or cheated or even knocked out by a rash driving vehicle. Similar threats loom over the head of a user when he is exposed …
Finding And Solving Contradictions Of False Positives In Virus Scanning, Umakant Mishra
Finding And Solving Contradictions Of False Positives In Virus Scanning, Umakant Mishra
Umakant Mishra
False positives are equally dangerous as false negatives. Ideally the false positive rate should remain 0 or very close to 0. Even a slightest increase in false positive rate is considered as undesirable.
Although the specific methods provide very accurate scanning by comparing viruses with their exact signatures, they fail to detect the new and unknown viruses. On the other hand the generic methods can detect even new viruses without using virus signatures. But these methods are more likely to generate false positives. There is a positive correlation between the capability to detect new and unknown viruses and false positive …