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Adaptive Detection of Worms/Viruses in Firewalls

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Overview This paper seeks to answer the question: "How to detect worms/viruses, which are replicated via emails, at the level of a firewall without cooperation with an anti-virus server?" All packets pass through firewalls and only firewalls are able to prevent packets from entering the network. The motivation is to reduce risk through preventing malicious packets (e.g., worms/viruses) from entering the secure network. It present the firewall model and address how to detect worms/viruses based on protocol sanity, probabilistic estimation of maliciousness, and patterns of packets.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	University of Fribourg	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Network Security, Security Tools

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