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Re: No AV? Shock, horror!
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:16:50 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:37:36AM +1300, Nick FitzGerald wrote:Given recent trends in malware development, the infection rate of AV- running systems will be far from zero.Strongly agreed. As I've pointed out elsewhere, all signature-based methods (whether anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-intrusion, or otherwise) are guaranteed to fail: it's only a question of when and what the consequences will be. This is not to say that they have zero value: they clearly have *some* value. But it is to say that sufficiently-clever adversaries can engineer around them, and are doing so.
We would agree: http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/in-security-reputation-is-key/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFKwVHsq1pz9mNUZTMRAivWAKCtEFYiCl6xcD5YvyhKFLodLtBAqgCfSn3p zwTMCcY4wsleMn0VjVNEpCU= =wvld -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ 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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- Re: No AV? Shock, horror!, (continued)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Michael Collins (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Dan Kaminsky (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Rich Kulawiec (Sep 30)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Michael Collins (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Toralv_Dirro (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Dan Kaminsky (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Charles Miller (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Nick FitzGerald (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Nick FitzGerald (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Rich Kulawiec (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Paul Ferguson (Sep 28)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Dan Kaminsky (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Paul Ferguson (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Rich Kulawiec (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Dan Kaminsky (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Charles Miller (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Dan Kaminsky (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Michael Collins (Sep 29)
- Re: No AV? Shock, horror! Nick FitzGerald (Sep 28)