How To Guarantee Malware Detection

itwbennett writes “Dr. Markus Jakobsson, Principal Scientist at PARC, explains how it is possible to guarantee the detection of malware, including zero-day attacks and rootkits and even malware that infected a device before the detection program was installed. The solution comes down to this, says Jakobsson: ‘Any program — good or bad — that wants to be active in RAM has no choice but to take up some space in RAM. At least one byte.’”