MS Researchers Tackle Automated Malware Classification

Researchers from Microsoft's anti malware engineering team are working on an automated way to sort through the thousands of malware families and variants attacking Windows computers.

The company unveiled its plans at the EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research) conference in Hamburg, Germany, proposing the use of distance measure and machine learning technologies to come up with automatic classification of viruses, Trojans, spyware, rootkits and other MS Researchers Tackle Automated Malware Classification