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Leaky anti-virus defences letting malware through
From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:07:55 +0200 (EET)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/08/security_scanner_shortcomings/ "Even users running up-to-date anti-virus software still get infected with malware, according to stats from an online malware scanning service. Nearly a third (25,000 out of 78,800) of computers with up-to-date anti-virus software were discovered to be infected with malicious code when users scanned their PC using SurfRight's HitmanPro 3 behavioural scan. SurfRight's analysis (pdf) is based on 107,435 users who put their PC through its scanner between 10 October and 4 December 2009. Around a quarter of these users (28,608) either had no scanner installed or were running security software that was out of date." pointing to http://files.surfright.nl/reports/HitmanPro3-RealWorldStatistics-OctNov2009.pdf [.pdf] Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ 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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