Manuscript Number : IJSRSET151628

Computer Viruses – Analysis of Detection Techniques and their Limitations

Authors(1) :-Harjit Singh

A Virus is basically developed to disturb the working of a computer and intentionally cause damage to its working. A virus can do so by file corruption, user document damage such as movie files, photographs, text documents, music files and in such a way to make the computer completely useless. A virus is not like a spyware developed for some mysterious behavior, it is developed to arise problems to use the computer and damage something. A computer virus replicates itself similar to a human virus and grows itself with the help of file sharing or email attachments. There are various detection techniques available and used by antivirus software to identify virus infected files and mark those files as infected and also try to clean them if possible. These techniques are successful to detect some specific category of viruses but may fail to detect other category of viruses. Some of the main categories of virus detection techniques are Static Signature Scanning Technique, Generic Signature Scanning Technique, Heuristic Analysis Technique and Integrity Checking Technique. But each of these techniques has its own limitations and the techniques fail to detect viruses with properties beyond the scope of the technique used. So, each antivirus software uses mixed set of techniques to detect virus infections in files. This paper discusses various types of virus threats and analyses various detection techniques in view of their limitations.

Authors and Affiliations

Harjit Singh
Punjabi University Neighbourhood Campus, Dehla Seehan (Sangrur), Punjab, India

Virus, Virus Beginning, Virus Targets, Virus Spreading, Virus Detection Techniques, Static Signature Scanning Technique, Generic Signature Scanning Technique, Heuristic Analysis Technique and Integrity Checking Technique.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 1 | Issue 6 | November-December 2015
Date of Publication : 2015-12-25
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 498-504
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET151628
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

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Harjit Singh, " Computer Viruses – Analysis of Detection Techniques and their Limitations, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 1, Issue 6, pp.498-504, November-December-2015. Journal URL : https://res.ijsrset.com/IJSRSET151628

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