A look at the Relationship of Malware and Antivirus Systems

Over this past semester, I have been examining the relationship between antivirus systems and malware. In this research, I have primarily looked at how the antivirus systems look detect and prevent the execution of malware.  In addition, I have also looked at steps that malware creators have been implementing in an effort to bypass antivirus systems. In order to accomplish this I read numerous online articles over the subject. In the later half of the semester, I also attempted to create some basic malware to test against a few antivirus systems.