‘Signatures are dead.’ ‘Really? And what about pattern matching?’

2010-04-01

Gyozo Papp

VirusBuster, Hungary

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

While accepting the increasing importance of behavioural analysis and detection, Gyozo Papp looks at how current detection technologies, from the simplest to the most complex, can be backed up by pattern matching, proving that it is a mature technology that is very much alive.

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