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Re: another VX site?
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:59:09 +1300
Drsolly to me:
Some would still argue (and have implemented their products thus) that that level of detection is not always necessary, _even when you are doing repair/disinfection_. For parasitic malware it is understandable that you should need as precise detection as possible, but with so much of today's malware being either non-replicative (Trojan, adware, spyware, "hacking tool", etc, etc) or monolithic replicators, where the "repair" is "delete the file and its associated registry entries", some have become fairly keen on "close enough is good enough" for their detection capabilities (dressed up for marketing under fancy-sounding names like "generic detection", "advanced heuristics" and so on...).How will you know which (for example) register entries to delete unless you hav an exact identification? Or which other files?
Don't ask me! I didn't I agreed with this approach, just that it has gained something of a following of late (perhaps as a result of too much laziness and hubris among the developers??).
The nightmare scenario is, malware that resumbles something else, but when you remove it as if it were that thing, that leaves behind a SOMETHING, which notices the bungled removal, triggers and ... Which leaves you with "OK, I had a malware, but my computer was working fine until I ran your product, which TRASHED it!"
I absolutely agree!
Or here -- NZ has had such civil unions for about a year (??) now...I expect the yanks will copy us soon.
Not in the current right-wing, ultra-conservative-swinging political atmosphere. Did you not notice that one of Bush's first suggestions as prez was to draft a new ammendment to the constitution that would make same-gender "marriage" unconstitutional? With such a climate and such a complete lack of intellectual grasp at the head of its government (I mean, a constitutional ammendment to _limit_ personal freedoms in the country that prides itself in its openness and whose raison d'etre is the advancement of personal freedom? From a president who supposedly represents the "less government intervention in your personal affairs is better goivernment" position? Are we sure he is really off the weed???), such a move as "liberalizing" US marriage/civil union laws in such a way that might not be in full agreement with the extreme Christian ultra-right will be a long way off indeed... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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