A Worm Detection Model Based on Artificial Immunology

The target of worm attacking is the whole Internet; usually, the defense of worm intrusion based on single computer cannot work well when facing large scale of worms´ attacking, so it cannot assure the network security all the time. Inspired by the collaboration of the immune cells, we apply the artificial immunology theory to the design of the active worm defense model AI-WDM, in which the computer network constitute an immune network and each computer in the network working as a detection node, they corporate with each other to defense the intrusion of worms while running detection processes independently.