dc.description.abstract | Malware - also known as malicious programs or code, are one of the biggest
threats in computing today. They have become very easy to develop and
thousands are produced every day. They mutate very easily making it very
difficult to control. The most accessible mitigation is anti-malware tools.
However, due to the reasons above the traditional signature based malware
scanning tools have proved insufficient. For this reason, the antimalware industry
is constantly rethinking ways of improving their detection methods. (Ye, Li,
Adjeroh, & Iyengar, 2017).
This research was conducted to assess and compare the performance of machine
learning algorithms in the detection of malware. | en_US |