McAfee touts its 'cloud-based' defenses against malware

McAfee made an announcement earlier this week about changes it will implement in how it delivers virus definitions to client machines. Via its new McAfee Artemis Technology method, suspicious and unidentified code that is harmful will be collected and uploaded to servers run by McAfee for immediate and automated review. The result is that the cloud is leveraged to create a virus definition that is then delivered "on-the-fly." Having said that, the current process in which virus definitions are downloaded regularly will continue. Indeed, with up to 3,500 pieces of daily malware, and a three-fold increase projected over this year alone, it's no wonder that competitors such F-Secure and Trend Micro are working on their own cloud-based initiatives.

For more on the cloud-based malware defenses:
- check out this Network World article