म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram > 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.
Yes. A anti-virus doesn't just search a arbitrary list of files but also validates whether it is a virus or not and that includes all of the above. 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.
