A computer virus is no death, always emerging new viruses and new variants of existing viruses are ready to spread the threat to us.
If there there is also a computer virus antivirus and that's our main weapon in dealing with computer viruses malignancy.
Has it ever occurred to us why the hell there are people who diligently creating computer viruses? Does he want to be famous or he wants to be called 'elite' for his expertise to make a virus? Does he have enough to do, or maybe that was the job?
This paper appears because I was wondering if there might be some kind of conspiracy due to the mutually beneficial symbiosis between the creator of the virus by the antivirus industry so that the virus / antivirus remain crowded until now.
Conspiracy
Suppose one of the emerging new types of viruses quickly and one of the antivirus vendors to identify and clean up a computer from new viruses while the other antivirus vendors are so confused and slow to recognize this new virus.
From the above case could be one of the antivirus vendor employee A contact / cooperation with the virus creator to make a virus with the criteria he had set earlier, in the sense of making a booking virus. And so the antivirus vendor A is known as the antivirus vendors are quick and can clear the virus 'order' is.
Thought the above arise because I observed that the virus rarely seem consistent with the results of his work, but the early scene in some time just disappeared.
Conspiracy theories over just thinking of me just after it, and until now this conspiracy theory was never proven.
Commercialization antivirus
One time our computer got a virus when we've been installing antivirus therein. Antivirus on the computer can do nothing even to 'running' was not. We are definitely confused when faced with such situations.
From the illustration above, we will wonder why we install the antivirus can not do anything to prevent computer virus attack.
Apparently the problem is antivirus is updated regularly will be more robust in providing protection against the virus than an antivirus that is never updated at all. That is why we are encouraged to always update the antivirus.
For this one I got the idea from one of the forum on the internet why antivirus updates that must be regularly performed and why the antivirus vendors can survive / grow.
Current commercial antivirus generally works with a method called blacklisting and the plot as follows:
1. The new virus is found.
2. Virus "signature" is identified and placed in the blacklist.
3. Antivirus software to check files on our computer with what is in blacklist: if there is a match then the antivirus will take a certain action.
Such was the approach that has been used by antivirus vendors, but there are two big problems in it if you use such an approach:
1. Antivirus software and also we will always depend on antivirus companies continuously to update the blacklist. We will still be attacked by a new virus which antivirus companies have yet to find or create a file "signature" to it. We will not and will never be protected from the threat of new viruses because viruses are not discovered until there is an infected computer. If your computer has not got a virus that was because of luck and the fact that the antivirus companies have done an excellent job preparing the honeypot (computers that are open to new viruses and help mengindetifikasinya) that provides early warning when a new virus is spread. Most of us are lucky if there is arguably a new virus that has not infect our computers.
2. Due to the thousands of new viruses spread every year then the blacklist will continue to evolve. This means that antivirus software will be spending more and more computer resources (cpu time, hard drive space) which will affect the performance. The increase in cpu speed, memory and hard drive space will alleviate the problem (just do not try to run the latest version of Norton on the old computer). The fact that there is indeed if we run a commercial antivirus software then our computer will become slower.
The biggest problem is that users will always be bound by antivirus software because it must continue to renew the existing blacklist and there is the key why the antivirus vendors can continue to survive and thrive.
This method is essentially blacklisting antivirus software will say "no" to something that should not exist in our computer and the opposite is the method in which greenlisting than busy keeping anything that should not exist in our computer so it will keep the method greenlisting what should be in our computer.
If this greenlisting method employed by the antivirus makers course that users benefit because the user does not need to update and too dependent on the antivirus. Which eventually antivirus companies will not grow.
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