Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that, as yourself and others have mentioned, the > distinction between the different categories are dependant upon personal > interpretation. What one classes as social engineering, someone else may > class as, for example, malware. Even though they can technically be the > same thing, perceptions vary, thereby making it a nigh on impossible > question to answer.
Following that logic, any distinction between spam and malware would be artificial, too. Sorry, but I don't subscribe to this sort of nihilism. ;-) I have not tried to make a distinction between social engineering and malware. Those are orthogonal concepts. But there definitely is a distinction between technical attacks and social engineering attacks, even though they're somewhat overlapping. _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
