[Aglets-users] Virus Fighting with Mobile Autonomous Agents

[Andrew P S. <sch...@ha...>]

Below is a link to a paper that was published last spring at MAICS
(www.maics.us).  I'm curious to see if anyone else is doing work similar
to this.  I am currently exploring different avenues to continue this
research and would like to discuss it with people interested in this topic.


Virus Fighting with Mobile Autonomous Agents

http://homepages.udayton.edu/~schworap/Maics2004Final.PDF


- Abstract -

In this work we examine mobile autonomous agent
technology and its ability to effectively fight a computer
virus attack on a network. A mobile agent is an
autonomous agent that has the ability to transfer to and
reproduce itself on other computers within a network
[Kotz, 99]. A computer virus is a malicious computer
program that infects host systems and replicates itself to
other host systems [Hoffman,90]. Using mobile agents, we
simulate a virus attack on a small, isolated network testbed.
We then simulate a virus fighter that successfully
detects the attack and distributes a patch across the
network. We employ the Java Aglet environment in our
implementation of mobile agents [Lange, 98]. In this
paper, we present both virus propagation and virus
detection algorithms, simulation details, a discussion of the
aglet test environment architecture, and detailed analysis of
test infection results.

Thanks,
Andy Schworer
University of Hawaii at Manoa