How Antivirus Software Works: 4 Detection Techniques

Though endpoint antivirus tools may differ in their implementation of malware-detection approaches, the tend to incorporate the same 4 essential techniques. In an article for SearchSecurity, I described at a high level how these techniques function, covering:

Signature-based detection
Heuristics-based detection
Behavioral detection
Cloud-based detection

Read the full article to more about these aspects of antivirus tools running on endpoint systems. If you’re not a member of the SearchSecurity website, you can scroll past the initial footer of the page to read the full article.

— Lenny Zeltser