Amrit Williams, BigFix CTO, continues his conversation with Al Huger, founder of Immunet, focusing on how the explosion in the types of malware has completely overwhelmed conventional anti-virus technologies and how Immunet is developing community-based solutions to the malware problem. Huger says that every month, 2 million new strains of malware appear on the Internet, swamping conventional signature-based malware products. Furthermore, the nature of malware has changed from loud, obvious pranks to stealthy attacks that require only a few seconds to steal desirable data and then disappear or lay dormant. Immunet works by identifying malicious files and preventing their download onto protected PCs, a sharp contrast to current generation products that fight malware only after it has put down roots in an infected machine.

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