| Publisher | CloudMark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 68.9KB PDF | Date added | 01 Dec 2005 |
| Topics | Anti-Virus, Network Security | ||
| Downloads | 25 | ||
Viruses and spam are both threats to productivity, but the techniques developed to combat them, like the abuse itself, differs radically. Consider that the skills required to create and generate a virus message are advanced, while the skills required generating spam are minimal - which is why there's so much of it. Conventional anti-virus software is created by company researchers who must first isolate a virus and then generate a fingerprint of the virus that can be checked against a database of known viruses. This methodology is effective only at a small scale and with infrequent variations in viruses. Spam mutation, on the other hand, appears more frequently, almost constantly.
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