Kaspersky is announcing a new (patented) technology in combating Malware. BTW, Kaspersky is actually a company that is providing protection against IT security threats – including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing and spam. I saw their booth in PC Show recently. It is getting bigger :). Anyway, their Press Release after the break. Remember to check out the links on the type of Malware detected in the South East Asia region (Singapore included).
Press Release
Kaspersky Lab Patents Cutting-edge Technology to Combat Increasingly Sophisticated Malware
Singapore – 22 June 2009 – Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content-management solutions, announces the successful patenting of cutting-edge information-security technology in the US. This specific technology effectively detects and deletes malicious software and removes any trace of its effects by running automatically generated scripts.
Today’s computers are exposed to a growing number of increasingly complex and rapidly changing malicious programmes. Greater emphasis is now being placed on automatic-protection methods that ensure fast data processing and prompt responses to threats. However, such technologies often generate false positives or suffer from low levels of new threat detection.
“This technology helps increase response times to newly emerging threats and streamlines the users’ communication with technical-support service. The fuzzy logic and artificial-intelligence systems incorporated in the patented technology, build up knowledge that can be classified and used to carry out self-training,” says the inventor of the technology, Oleg Zaytsev, a senior technical specialist at Kaspersky Lab. The patent for the new technology and its implementation was registered as No. 7 540 030 by the US Patent Bureau on 26 May 2009.
The recently patented technology from Kaspersky Lab is an effective combination of existing and newly developed methods to combat malicious software. Its automated methods are effective at processing large volumes of data. Moreover, processing and storing large volumes of information is advantageous in that it helps optimise and train the protection system, whilst security experts have the option of adjusting and fine-tuning the protection system as it operates.
This combination produces a synergy effect that saves resources and provides a high level of malware detection. Use of empirical data and the system’s learning capabilities enables a gradual specialisation and perfection of its functions.
The patented system automatically aggregates statistics on programmes and their activities. Information is collected from event logs, system scan results and user records about quarantined files. The data are used to identify malware, automatically generate scripts to remove detected threats, and carry out an in-depth analysis of the system.
The scripts generated by the system can be improved by computer-security specialists, which may be beneficial in cases where the system does not have sufficient knowledge to develop and take decisions in complex situations. This allows subsequent problems of a similar nature to be resolved automatically. In other words, as the amount of statistical data collected increases with time, the system operates more effectively.
Kaspersky Lab currently has more than 30 patent applications pending in the US and Russia related to a range of innovative technologies developed by company personnel.
About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky® Lab delivers the world’s most immediate protection against IT security threats – including viruses, spyware, crimeware, hackers, phishing and spam. Kaspersky Lab products provide superior detection rates and the industry’s fastest outbreak response time for home users, SMBs, large enterprises and mobile computing users. Kaspersky Lab’s technology is also used worldwide inside the products and services of the industry’s leading IT security solution providers on an OEM basis. Kaspersky Lab is headquartered in Moscow, Russia and has its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Hong Kong, its Southeast Asia headquarters in Malaysia, a Virus Lab in China and sales and support offices in Japan and Korea.
Learn more about Kaspersky Lab at www.kaspersky-asia.com and visit www.viruslist.com to view the latest news on antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and other IT security issues and trends. You can also view the Top 100 Malware Threats by country across Southeast Asia at http://www.kaspersky-sea.com/top100/index.html
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