On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
i think these are validation techniques, not search mechanisms. > 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.
