Re: Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Speaking of whitelists, does anyone know of a MD5 database of valid
Microsoft Windows .exe and .dll files?

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:AlexE () sunbelt-software com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:59 PM
To: Richard M. Smith; funsec
Subject: RE: [funsec] Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

I dislike whitelisting.  Certainly practical for data entry clerks and
the like, but I suspect it becomes a royal PITA when you get into other
types of users.  Plus managing software updates, etc.

Any other thoughts out there on this technology? I'm getting a bit tired
of hearing the old "AV is dead" nonsense. 

Alex


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:37 PM
To: 'funsec'
Subject: [funsec] Texas Bank Dumps Antivirus for Whitelisting

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=158750&WT.svl=news1_4

Brent Rickels, senior vice president at First National Bank of Bosque
County, had grown tired of dealing with antivirus software. He was tired
of regularly updating virus signatures, tired of hackers constantly
tweaking malware, and tired of worrying about what users had downloaded
onto their PCs. So Rickels dumped the bank's AV software for a
whitelisting product and in the process, become one of its first
commercial customers. 


_______________________________________________
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.