Modern Methods of Detecting and Eradicating Known and Unknown Viruses

Viruses are growing in number from day to day, so it is obvious that soon antivirus programs like NAV or MSAV will not be quite efficacious. Therefore, we started designing a program that would annihilate not individual infectors, but viruses in general, regardless of whether a virus is known or not, or whether it is old or new. The first outcome of our efforts in this direction, ADinf (Advanced Diskinfoscope), is a forecasting center which alerts the user in advance with great reliability about the intrusion of viruses, even HITHERTO unknown infectors. As distinct from all other data integrity checkers, ADinf inspects a disk by scanning the sectors one by one via direct addressing of BIOS without the assistance of the operating system and takes under check all vital parts of hard disk. To evade such a detection tactics is almost impossible. ADinf alerts the user in time about virus intrusion and restores infected boot sectors. How to restore the infected files automatically? Our next step was to produce a curing companion to ADinf. The new tool, ADinf Cure Module, deploys a novel strategy. Paradoxically, ninety seven percents of the viruses in our collection fall under few standard groups by the types of infection methods. New viruses are as a rule designed on one of these common infection principles, and therefore ADinf Cure Module will be about 97% efficient in its performance also in the future. ADinf and ADinf Cure Module are parts of DialogueScience anti-virus kit the most popular anti-virus in Russia.