The invention discloses a distributed cloud searching and killing method and
system, a
cloud server and clients, and belongs to the technical field of
network security. According to the method, on one hand, features in a complete
virus feature
library are divided into multiple
virus feature subsets through the
cloud server, and the multiple
virus feature subsets are distributed to the multiple clients according to distribution rules; meanwhile, the
overlap ratio of the virus feature subsets is lower than a preset threshold value, and it is guaranteed that local virus feature libraries of the
client can be maximized and close to the virus feature libraries after being combined; and on the other hand, when the
local matching fails and the
cloud server is unavailable, the
client can initiate a matching request to other clients, and the feature libraries of a plurality of clients are integrated to realize collaborative searching and killing. According to the method, the searching and killing capability of the cloud is guaranteed, the local anti-virus capability under the condition that the cloud
server is disconnected is remarkably improved, and distributed resources in a network are effectively utilized.