Re: Asynchronous, industry-wide virus naming scheme proposed

[Feher Tamas <etomcat () freemail hu>]

Hello,

> Interesting post... one thing tho, those root "VNS" servers will 
> instantly be the target of DDoS attack by the virus writers...

As the root-VNS server need not serve end users, only the vendor-VNS 
and maybe vendor-reseller-VNS servers, they could drop any packet 
not coming from trusted IP addesses or just use data transmit line that 
are not part of the internet.

Protecting vendor-VNS servers against DDoS is up to each AV-vendor, 
e.g. they could rent massive capacity at Akamai.net or other huge 
datapipe provide. FYIF, McAfee (NAI) already uses Akamai to distribute 
its virus signature database updates.

> But I think its a problem that has a non-technological
> solution, if any solution is possible.

Indeed my proposal may be way over-complicated, but I do feel virus 
naming must be technology-assisted. Else it will never be uniform and 
crackers will reign over the confusion, while innocent, hex-illiterate 
computer users continue to suck.

Sincerely: Tamas Feher.


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