1. A system for strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network, comprising: one or more active scanners configured to remotely scan a host in the network to enumerate one or more processes running on the remotely scanned host and compute unique signatures associated with the one or more enumerated processes; and one or more processors coupled to the one or more active scanners, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: communicate the unique signatures associated with the enumerated processes running on the remotely scanned host to a cloud database, wherein the cloud database aggregates signatures associated with known virus or malware samples that multiple different anti-virus vendors have catalogued; receive a message from the cloud database that indicates whether the unique signatures associated with the enumerated processes running on the remotely scanned host match any signatures associated with the known virus or malware samples that the multiple different anti-virus vendors have catalogued; and generate a report to indicate that the remotely scanned host has a malware infection if the message received from the cloud database indicates that the unique signature associated with at least one enumerated process running on the remotely scanned host matches the signature associated with at least one known virus or malware sample that the multiple different anti-virus vendors have catalogued.