[ Discussion ] How Anti-Malware Applications Work ?

[CodeXpert]

As descriped above in the title..

How Anti-Malware Applications Work ? How does it find the sign. for specific malware.

And a cerious question is how scan works.. It is very fast so it approximately not searching in databases >?!

Any comments will be appreciated

[ramtin]

Hi

Anti-Malware create a hash, you can see YARA (it is open source Malware Classification tool)

http://code.google.com/p/yara-project/downloads/list

or use ClamAV, it is an open source antivirus and we use it to create malware signature.