Traditional antivirus solutions may struggle to accurately detect low-prevalence threats. DetectionĪround 2013, the security industry's focus began to shift toward signature-less approaches to antivirus protection. Conversely, legacy AV solutions can be blind to malware in zip and other formats, as well as fileless malware, and fail to catch advanced threats. But most malware authors stay a step ahead of such software by writing oligomorphic, polymorphic, and more recently metamorphic viruses, which use obfuscation techniques such as encrypting parts of themselves or otherwise modify themselves so as to not match virus signatures in the antivirus database.Įndpoint security that employs advanced malware protection blocks known malware exploits accurately and efficiently without being solely dependent on signatures.
Traditional antivirus (AV) software relies heavily upon detecting the signature, or binary pattern, of a virus to identify and prevent damage from malware. Types of advanced malware protection Prevention
