Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
As the anti-viruses run in a trusted kernel level any loophole
in the anti-virus program can enable attackers to take full control over the
computer system and steal data or do serious damages. Hence the anti-virus
engines must be developed with proper security in mind. The ant-virus should be
able to any type of specially created executable files, compression packages or
documents that are intentionally created to exploit the anti-virus’s weakness.
Viruses are present in almost every system even though there
are anti-viruses installed. This is
because every anti-virus, however good it may be, leads to some extent of false
positives and false negatives. Our faith on the anti-virus system often makes
us more careless about hygienic habits which increases the possibility of
infection. It is necessary for an anti-virus to detect and destroy the malware
before its own files are detected and destroyed by the malware.
Keywords: computer virus, anti-virus, anti-virus
software, computer vulnerability, computer security, anti-virus design,
anti-virus development, virus scanning, virus detection, signature scanning,
integrity checking, heuristic scanning, emulation, activity monitoring, generic
scanning, behavior monitoring, resident scanning, virus database, on-access
scanning,
Mishra,
Umakant, How Do Viruses Attack Anti-Virus Programs (July 20, 2013). Available
at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2296319 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2296319
