EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM THAT ENSURES INFORMATION SECURITY FROM RAPIDLY MULTIPLYING MALWARE

Atlasov Igor, Plotnikov German, Elin Vladimir

The article discusses the features of countering malicious software capable of reproducing its copies for some time. Special attention is paid to the problem of detection and destruction by some antivirus program for some time under the following scenarios: The antivirus program copes with the rate of malware reproduction and destroys it on some generation of copies, or the antivirus program does not cope with this task and the process of malware reproduction gets out of control. The article discusses the methodology for evaluating the performance of an antivirus program based on the proposed conditions.

Keywords:malware, probability, mathematical expectation, generating function.Annotation.