Re:Rooting Out Malware with a Side-Channel Chip Defense System
by userbinator on Friday February 27, 2015 @03:54PM
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There is no mention of false-positive rates, one of the things about traditional antimalware software that tends to worry me a bit. Even "for low-level systems that follow a predictable and standard routine", things like spikes in load could look unusual.
Using "side channel" hints is actually what (some) humans do to suspect malware infection too - unusually large amounts of HDD or network activity while the system is idle, or CPU fans running much more than normal, tends to raise suspicion.
Using "side channel" hints is actually what (some) humans do to suspect malware infection too - unusually large amounts of HDD or network activity while the system is idle, or CPU fans running much more than normal, tends to raise suspicion.