Hà duas semanas, eu escrevi sobre CloudAV? Uma aproximação nova Anti ao vírus Softwarest onde eu mencionei as seguintes linhas.

“Eu penso que CloudAV será altamente eficaz lutar de encontro a todo o tipo das ameaças including as ameaças zero do dia, mas devido à análise behavioral, CloudAV pôde ser pesado em recursos.”

Mas, eu era análise errada, behavioral não afetarei o desempenho em tudo, no fato após ter lido o papel perto Jon Oberheide (um dos investigadores de CloudAV, na universidade de Michigan), e através de alguns email que eu lhe emiti, eu sinto como reproduzir o acima como.

“Eu penso que CloudAV será altamente eficaz lutar de encontro a todo o tipo das ameaças including as ameaças zero do dia, Um serviço archival e do forensics - stores information about analyzed files and provides a management interface.

A schematic architecture of CloudAV is as shown here.

Working of CloudAV

The only component of CloudAV, which is required to be installed, is the host agent, which is very light weight, so using CloudAV doesn’t require a system with some very heavy resources. Here is small video on it.

Apart from this, every file that has undergone the checking, its UID (Unique Identifier), is saved along with the report for it, in the local cache, to avoid checking the same file again and again. UID is provided by UID generator, which is a part of the host agent, and UID can be understood as a unique code for every file.

Every new file that arrives to your system, let it be via some copy operation, some download, or some installation, falls under the category of suspicious files in the eyes of CloudAV and has to undergo the checking process.

CloudAV is running successfully as an educational project in Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, at University of Michigan, and has been evaluated as a very efficient Antivirus System, with a very enormous increase in detection rates, as compared to other antivirus software.

So let us hope, we soon experience a revolutionary antivirus system, in our workplaces, as it’s a network based service, so, independent users will probably not be able to enjoy the benefits of CloudAV.

I would also like to thanks Jon, for his patience in helping me with the queries.

More details about CloudAV can be seen on here and on Jon’s website.

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