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Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:10:59 +1200
Drsolly wrote:
I'm really surprised that neither Paul nor David knew that this repository already exists, and is shared by the AV vendors, on a vetted basis.
Really? You're surprised that really, really bright and clearly intelligent folk who know virtually nothing about what they're now talking about might miss something so fundamental? Wow -- and I thought you were one of the smart cookies in all this... 8-) To quote from the referenced article: [Anti-virus companies] have to understand that if they hoard [new malware samples], then they're going to be lonesome. What part of multi-gigabytes per month per vendor sample distributions does the above statement align with? No offense to David or Paul, but the samples you are seeing at any given moment are no more or less the most important samples for any other vendor or victim than those you are not only not seeing at this moment, but will never see. The solution to that is "eventually" all these samples will be shared and distributed, but even then, they will not be instantly processed and detection added as there are yet further resource constraints on the vendors. Thus, even if all samples could be got to every vendor instantly, the detection scenario would likely not change much, so we have a solution looking for a problem... 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.
Current thread:
- Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Fergie (Aug 29)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Drsolly (Aug 29)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Nick FitzGerald (Aug 29)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Drsolly (Aug 30)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports David Dagon (Aug 30)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Drsolly (Aug 30)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Nick FitzGerald (Aug 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Fergie (Aug 29)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Fergie (Aug 29)
- Re: Anti-Virus Testing and Consumer Reports Drsolly (Aug 29)