The objective of this project is to contribute towards the development of a second-generation early warning system, which will be able to detect and fingerprint polymorphic and metamorphic worms using two novel techniques. The first technique contributes towards the containment of zero-day polymorphic worms by designing and developing appropriate mechanisms which will impede the spreading rate of such worms by poisoning their intelligence gathering services with stale information. The second technique explores pioneering ways to detect polymorphic and metamorphic worms at the application level because these worms can not be otherwise identified at the network level.

• Institution of Funding: GSRT
  

• Partners: FORTH (Greece), University of Columbia (USA), Virtual Trip Ltd.
  

• Start - End: 1/4/2006 - 31/3/2008 (Duration: 24 months)

• Project Budget: 90.000,00 €

• Project Funding: 60.000,00 €

• VTrip Budget: 60.000,00 €

• VTrip Funding: 30.000,00 €