CIO Guide: Effective Antivirus Strategies For Malware Protection

It sounds like a chat-room joke: How many script kiddies does it take to crank trojans out of a malware kit? But this is no joke. The current plague of viruses, worms and trojans can be described as an expanding . . . It sounds like a chat-room joke: How many script kiddies does it take to crank trojans out of a malware kit? But this is no joke. The current plague of viruses, worms and trojans can be described as an expanding social, rather than technical, phenomenon. The burgeoning community of virus dabblers has produced some 60,000 strains of malware and sends 50 new ones onto the Net each day. Computer virus hunters are racing to design new approaches to keep ahead of attacks that keep morphing in a networked world.

In such an environment, what types of antivirus technology Relevant Products/Services from CIO Today Magazine are available for CIOs seeking to secure their corporate networks?

For starters, the Web changed everything, including computer viruses and the software designed to thwart them. The core of antivirus software is still the diagnosis of new viruses and development of what is called a "pattern file," which tells computers how to scan for each virus' presence.

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