A Distributed Approach against Computer Viruses Inspired by the Immune System

Takeshi OKAMOTO; Yoshiteru ISHIDA

A Distributed Approach against Computer Viruses Inspired by the Immune System

Takeshi OKAMOTO, Yoshiteru ISHIDA

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More than forty thousands computer viruses have appeared so far since the first virus. Six computer viruses on average appear every day. Enormous expansion of the computer network opened a thread of explosive spread of computer viruses. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach against computer virus using the computer network that allows distributed and agent-based approach. Our system is composed of an immunity-based system similar to the biological immune system and recovery system similar to the recovery mechanism by cell division. The immunity-based system recognizes "non-self" (which includes computer viruses) using the "self" information. The immunity-based system uses agents similar to an antibody, a natural killer cell and a helper T-cell. The recover system uses a copy agent which sends an uninfected copy to infected computer on LAN, or receives from uninfected computer on LAN. We implemented a prototype with JAVA^TM known as a multi-platform language. In experiments, we confirmed that the proposed system works against some of existing computer viruses that can infect programs for MS-DOS^TM.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E83-B No.5 pp.908-915

Publication Date: 2000/05/25

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Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (IEICE/IEEE Joint Special Issue on Autonomous Decentralized Systems)

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Takeshi OKAMOTO, Yoshiteru ISHIDA, "A Distributed Approach against Computer Viruses Inspired by the Immune System" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E83-B, no. 5, pp. 908-915, May 2000, doi: .
Abstract: More than forty thousands computer viruses have appeared so far since the first virus. Six computer viruses on average appear every day. Enormous expansion of the computer network opened a thread of explosive spread of computer viruses. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach against computer virus using the computer network that allows distributed and agent-based approach. Our system is composed of an immunity-based system similar to the biological immune system and recovery system similar to the recovery mechanism by cell division. The immunity-based system recognizes "non-self" (which includes computer viruses) using the "self" information. The immunity-based system uses agents similar to an antibody, a natural killer cell and a helper T-cell. The recover system uses a copy agent which sends an uninfected copy to infected computer on LAN, or receives from uninfected computer on LAN. We implemented a prototype with JAVA^TM known as a multi-platform language. In experiments, we confirmed that the proposed system works against some of existing computer viruses that can infect programs for MS-DOS^TM.
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