Why Antivirus Technology Is Ineffective (Business Week)

(i.e. white-listing technologies).

This article gives a good rundown of the strategies followed by signature based AVs vs the white-listing technologies. Should make for a good discussion. On the down-side, the white-listing technologies are only being sold to enterprises instead of the home user at this point according to the article. If you know of any white-listing technology for the home user currently on the market, or about to be, this thread would be a good place to make that information known.

Article here.

-- Tom

 

Burglar alarms... are failing in the real world. The response to their alarm is to slow, and / or the alarms are disabled by the thieves.

What will happen with white-listing? The focus will switch from malware running on itself on a system to malware infecting vulnerable white-listed applications.

 

Faronics Anti-Executable uses whitelisting but u have to specify the allowed applications.

theres also Prevx1, a Community Intrusion Prevention System. it uses both white and blacklists.