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AV == parasites? (was: PocketPC exploitation)
From: Michael Shigorin <mike () osdn org ua>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:54:53 +0300
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:16:50AM -0400, Jose Morales wrote:
As for overhead on PPC placed by better antivirus solutions, this will very soon go away
Is it really proactive approach? I didn't think someone having M.Sc. in CS (not in Chemistry as I do) would seriously call AV vendors "saviours" and not "parasites".
handhelds keep being releases with bigger hard drives (upto 4 gigabytes last time i hear) more RAM more CPU power and overall better performance, clearly the bottlenecks of current embedded system security will very soon dissipate and in its current state they can handle stronger AV solutions that was is currently out there.
I'm not pro in AV software by any margin but from these trenches, it seems like it's easier to burst malicious code variations which consume cycles and bytes than to pump up CPU and RAM, technoeconomically. It won't be pleasant world when people will accept their mobile phones suddenly spreading (and taking) virii and their cars crashing for no reason until they have really fresh and definitely the most stron antivirus on the block installed. Maybe it's time to start pressing vendors and voting for alternatives with one's pouch before getting that far? * http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~tdrewry/GM_MS.htm * http://www.nokia.com/770 -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike () altlinux ru> ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/ ---- visit our conference (Oct 1): -- http://conference.osdn.org.ua
Current thread:
- PocketPC exploitation Jose Morales (Sep 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: PocketPC exploitation Jose Morales (Sep 28)
- AV == parasites? (was: PocketPC exploitation) Michael Shigorin (Sep 29)
- Re: PocketPC exploitation Denis Jedig (Sep 30)
- Re: PocketPC exploitation Joel Maslak (Sep 30)