ABSTRACT
Even A/V vendors have come to the same conclusion,
as evidenced by “New approaches to malware detection,”
an article by Ellen Messmer in the April 30, 2007, issue
of Network World. The entry quotes Brian Foster,
Symantec’s Senior Director for Product Management, as
saying “Everyone agrees signature-based defense is not
enough.” In the same entry, Paul Moriarty, director of
Internet Content Security for Trend Micro, said they were
looking beyond the signature-based approach, which “has
utility but some limitations.” Trend Micro hopes to aug-
ment traditional signature-based technology with analysis
of patterns of traffic to desktops or servers. Further, Trend
Micro is looking at promising research regarding blocking
traffic to Web sites whose domain names have existed for
fewer than 5 days.
