Computer Security

I’ve found that anti-virus software often comes bloated and very ineffective.  This doesn’t mean that antivirus software is not worth having on your computer, however.  I highly recommend getting SOME form of antivirus.  I personally use Avast on any windows machine that I have setup. I know a lot of people use AVG as well. I stay away from paid software such as Symantec or Norton.  I personally believe they are some of the major virus writers to help protect their kingdom.

I am in the works, though it is far off, of developing an anti-virus software.  I have developed a database and am still tweaking and modifying it to fit the needs. I will post another article in regards to this software once I have an online demonstration available.  It will first allow you to submit files and auto-check these files for infections.  I’ve seen some very very deep rooted viruses and my goals are to help locate and remove these viruses through advanced techniques.  The software will have the ability to “profile” viruses that are found in the wild and put this in an easily searchable database.  Right now I have 2 extremely rare, and extremely difficult to uproot viruses totally profiled in the database.

Once I have the online services functional and available for use I will work on developing daemons (background software) that will run on UNIX as well as Windows servers/desktops that will monitor, scan and search for these deep rooted files as well as typical exploits and malware. Hopefully this will prove effective!

I have included many fields in the database system, however here is a small example of some information gleaned from what i’ve discovered so far. This is a result set of files, checksums and sizes that can help identify malware as queried from the MySQL Database back end.