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Cloud-based Antivirus. By Yuli Deng, Guofu Xiong. Project Proposal. Traditional Antivirus and its disadvantages. Traditional Antivirus heavily relied upon s ignature based detection Require to update virus library frequently
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Cloud-based Antivirus By Yuli Deng, GuofuXiong Project Proposal
Traditional Antivirus and its disadvantages • Traditional Antivirusheavily relied uponsignature based detection • Require to update virus library frequently • Heavy load on the computing resources, killer of netbook and smartphone • Single antivirus engine, never the best, some time do false action • Presents to much prompts and decisions to inexperienced users
Cloud Security Concept • Collect sample files on client • Upload files to the cloud • Cloud analyze the file, make decisions and report results to the client • Client take actions
Features of Cloud-based Antivirus • Behavior-based virus scan • File emulation • Always up-to-date • Lightweight host agent --- Computing resource needs is low • Multiple anti-virus engine • Intelligent
Overall Design Goal • Build a demonstration program to study the concept of Cloud-based Anti-Virus
Some Technology Goals • A simple server utilizes current online Cloud-base AV engine (Symantec, Trend, etc…) • An windows client program • C++ is expected to be used for coding currently
Detail: Symantec Scan Engine • Latest SDK Version 5.2 • C++ API provided to 3rd party • Refer to http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-use-symantec-scan-engine-52-content-scanning-technologies-direct-integration-your-appli