Outsmarted - Why Malware Works In Face Of Antivirus Software

This whitepaper provides an analysis of why malware is so successful. For many years, different types of malware rank among the biggest IT security threats both in the business and the private domain. In order to protect one self from the dangers of malware, numerous software manufacturers offer IT security products like antivirus and endpoint protection software. But these products alone offer no sufficient protection from malware that knows some tricks, as the results of the author's recent research with the topic antivirus evasion show.