[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now there is a very common misconception if it comes to malware and > security. Viruses and Trojans don't try to exploit any vulnerabilities > that need to be fixed, they simply take advantage of features offered by > the OS (modifying files, creating files, establishing connections to > some C&C etc.). > > AV software is basically looking for all known malware and is trying to > detect new (i.e. unknown) malware based on behaviour or similarities to > known malware. Anything that can be learned from such a contest has > allready been shown back in the early 90s. > > The contest may provide some interesting insights if it were up against > behaviour-based protection and HIPS actively running on a system, but > against a bunch of commandline-AV-scanners? C'mon...
Why ruin a perfectly pointless skiddie piddling match by introducing a few pertinent facts? You Germans have no sense of humour... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
