[pchelpers] Article:McAfee Putting Malware Signatures in the Cloud

By Larry Seltzer
2008-09-08 

Will McAfee's Artemis and similar technologies really improve security
for end users?

McAfee has made no secret of itsArtemis project. It's been in beta most
of this year. Now the company is talking it up to the Wall Street
Journal, making it sound like it's closer to product form. 

The idea behind Artemis, as the WSJ article says, is being pursued
by McAfee's major competitors as well. Trend Micro has already made
vague announcements of cloud-based service, and I suspect we will have
similar announcements very, very soon. Essentially the idea is to
offload some malware checks to an online database. When the software
detects a program or file as being suspicious, probably through behavior
checks, it takes some form of hash of the files involved and submits it
in a database query to their most updated malware database. If a hit is
detected then the user can be notified, and perhaps the malware removed.

more here:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/McAfee-Putting-Malware-Signatures-in-the-Cloud/
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