[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: >What about companies that are purporting and actually selling appliances >or applications that claim to stop viruses as they break out based on >heauristics and/or pattern matching? Are they just blowing smoke?
No, they're just looking for deltas in established traffic patterns (both throughput and ports and IP spread). It's like Bayesian systems, they get more accurate as more data is accumulated. The question is, how much false positives do they cause problems for? -- Regards... Todd We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy. Where it is easy, it's called a police state. -- Jeff Schiller on NANOG Linux kernel 2.6.3-15mdkenterprise 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
