Manas Alekar wrote: >> > Curious. Can you point some resources on how good antivirus programs work ? > I seem to find this interesting.
Any decent anti-virus should do more than just simple string matching. Heuristics, file emulation and sandboxing are common additional techniques. The exact details are probably proprietary to these programs but refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_day_virus Rahul -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
