He noted that the technology won't be signature-based, like so much security is today. Signature-based malware detection is based on searching for known patterns within malicious code. The problem, though, is that zero-day, or brand-new, malware attacks are often successful because they have no known signatures to guard against.Source: ComputingWorld
Intel is working around this problem by not depending on signatures.
And the technology will be hardware based, though it's still unclear if it will have a software component.
"Right now, anti-malware depends on signatures, so if you haven't seen the attack before, it goes right past you unnoticed," said Rattner, who called the technology "radically different".
"We've found a new approach that stops the most virulent attacks. It will stop zero-day scenarios. Even if we've never seen it, we can stop it dead in its tracks," he said.
Intel hardware-based anti-virus to be a game changer?
Posted on Wednesday, January 26 2011 @ 20:48 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck