Antivirus Programs

Antivirus Programs:Testing For A Solution
For many years, I read testing results from industry standard antivirus testing companies, countless pages of information, and I tried to make heads or tails of it. When I
finished, I still pondered the question that brought me to read them in the first place.
What antivirus program was best for my school?
Working as an Information Security Analyst at Colby-Sawyer College in New
London, New Hampshire, I have the opportunity to see all sorts of malware.
Students want to explore all that the Internet has to offer. The problem is that
the Internet is not always the best place to be curious. As a result, I’ve seen malware
infections as high as 8,000 viruses on one computer. I was able to use my unique
situation to acquire 10 zero day viruses/ trojans and 2 exploits in one night.
These could all be considered zero day infections, as most were not detected by
antivirus software but all were confirmed by two or more companies after submission.

I chose to test these threats with 13 of the most popular antivirus programs available in the US, because I have seen these specific threats destroy a computer and render it useless both on and off the Internet. These threats are not self-propa-gating, which is what a true virus is.

Propagation is unnecessary when many of these infections are packaged with popular
games or peer-to peer programs or on a web page that gets 10, 000 hits a day. In
fact, Kazaa was the number one searched word on Yahoo last year. In any case, most of these infections were far more compli- cated and time consuming to remove and
had worse effects than even the dreaded Sasser worm. So why wouldn’t every antivirus program detect and remove these infections? A technician from one of the antivirus programs tested explained to me that, although many of the samples I sent him

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