Protecting Anti-virus Programs From Viral Attacks

TL;DR

This paper discusses strategies for enhancing anti-virus programs' resilience against malicious viruses, emphasizing detection, obfuscation techniques, and inventive problem-solving methods like TRIZ to improve security.

Contribution

It introduces the application of TRIZ Inventive Standards to address and mitigate the harmful effects of viruses on anti-virus software.

Findings

Use of obfuscation techniques like polymorphism to hide anti-virus code

Application of TRIZ standards to solve virus-related problems

Strategies for anti-virus robustness against malware attacks

Abstract

During a fight between viruses and anti-viruses it is not always predictable that the anti-virus is going to win. There are many malicious viruses which target to attack and paralyze the anti-viruses. It is necessary for an anti-virus to detect and destroy the malware before its own files are detected and destroyed by the malware. The anti-virus may follow thorough testing and auditing procedures to fix all its bugs before releasing the software in the market. Besides the anti-virus may use all the obfuscation techniques like polymorphism that the viruses generally use to hide their codes. This article also shows how to use TRIZ Inventive Standards to solve the harmful effects of the viruses on the anti-virus.