Current Trends in Antivirus Protection
Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany · 2015
The target audience of consumers for antivirus software can be divided into four major groups: home users, small to medium-sized companies, governments and big companies, and the targets of governments. This chapter discusses the current trends and the protection levels offered by the antivirus industry to its major target audience groups and what each group should expect. It explains the various factors that play a role in choosing which attack technique to use against which target. Zero-day bugs are security bugs that are not yet disclosed or fixed and that can be used to own a system. These kinds of bugs are so powerful that they cost a lot of money and time to acquire. Zero-days can be considered cyber-weapons. For anyone under government surveillance, the security of their computers and their ability to conduct confidential and private communications are unfortunately the least of their problems.