What will it take to defeat malware?

Mihai Christodorescu, University of Wisconsin (Madison), talks about the challenges of psyching out malware:

"One thing I learned is that the number of distinct malicious behaviors that the malware performs is quite limited. Attackers have only a couple of goals in mind: They want to put your machine under remote control so they can send spam or spy on your activities."

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Series producer: Barbara Finkelstein

Last updated May 20, 2008