An Anti-Virus Stackable File System

This project develops a file system that automatically checks files for any virus patterns known to a virus pattern database. We check files page by page, and address both read-only and read-write file access. We consider simple viruses as well as polymorphic ones. One of the main thrusts of this project is to develop efficient ways to detect viruses without changing any user applications.

Journal Articles:

#	Title (click for html version)	Formats	Published In	Date	Comments
1	On Incremental File System Development	PS PDF BibTeX	ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)	May 2006

Conference and Workshop Papers:

#	Title (click for html version)	Formats	Published In	Date	Comments
1	Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System	PS PDF BibTeX	13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2004)	Aug 2004

Past Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Period	Current Location
1	Charles P. Wright	PhD	May 2003 - May 2006	Partner, Senior Software Architect, Illumon (New York, NY)
2	Abhijith Das	MS	May 2003 - Jan 2004	Red Hat, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)
3	Miretskiy "Eugene" Yeugeniy	MS	May 2003 - Dec 2004	Software Engineer Google (New York, NY)

Sponsors:

#	Sponsor	Amount	Period	Type	Title (click for award abstract)
1	NSF Trusted Computing (TC)	$400,000	2003-2006	Sole PI	A Layered Approach to Securing Network File Systems