Fighting malicious code
Christopher Kruegel · 2014
Despite many years of research and significant commercial investment, the malware problem is far from being solved (or even reasonably well contained). Every week, the mainstream press publishes articles that describe yet another incident where millions of credit cards were leaked, a large company discloses that adversaries had remote access to its corporate secrets for years, and we discover a new botnet with tens of thousands of compromised machines. Clearly, this situation is not acceptable, but why isn't it getting any better?