VM Antivirus, Hypertection and 5nine Manager

hi,

With the success of the cloud, VMs are more and more deployed.
A new market horizon for the AV industry.
McAfee and Kaspersky are already present in this market

http://www.kaspersky.com/products/business/applications/security-virtualization
http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/move-anti-virus.aspx

Specialized solutions come at the right time to take the wagon of this niche market.

-Hypertection, agentless antivirus based on MSE and Clam AV
http://www.hypertection.com

Currently in beta phase.

-5nine Manager, free edition available, more complete as it provides firewall features http://www.5nine.com/5nine-hyper-v-security-free-and-scanner.aspx

VMWare article about AV in VM
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026504‎

This is for information purpose, and i will not discuss about the absolute need of these solutions, especially regarding the limited VM threats landscape...

rgds

 

I have seen that approach in the past;
e,g, BitDefender Free have some components with "AVC HyperVisor" as internal name, displayed in the Device Manager as "AVC HV"

That could be a reason why such approach is very effective when combining detection and removal at deepest level of integration, and better performance because the hyperVisor removes the need of a binary emulator