Method and Product for Providing a Predictive Security Product and Evaluating Existing Security Products

A method, product and computer program product for effecting an Evolutionary Process on malware, the method including the steps of: (a) receiving a malware specimen; (b) generating variants of the malware specimen; (c) evaluating the variants and awarding each the variant a Fitness Score; (d) selecting the variants having at least a predefined the Fitness Score; and (e) using the selected variants as the malware specimens in step (a) from which to generate a new generation of the variants.