Re: BitDefender, you've created a monster! (story ...)

[<michael.blanchard () emc com>]

I don't know about you folks, but I just love hearing from "malware experts" (so called) that they found some new form 
of threat or behavior that many of us have seen 20 - 25 years or more ago.  Like this article, we know it's dribble and 
by far nothing at all new.  But when I'm talking to folks that claim to be malware experts, or IT security experts, and 
they start stating stuff like "....yah, malware's getting so bad these days that viruses are infecting malware!  
Imagine that?!...."  
  I just laugh to myself and put some type of mental scarlet letter on their forehead....


Is it weird that I no longer feel old when I realize I've been doing this stuff for about 25 years now?  Maybe THAT's 
the sign that I'm truly old?  :-)

Michael P. Blanchard
Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management
EMC ² Corporation
32 Coslin Drive
Southboro, MA 01772


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Robert Slade
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:29 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] BitDefender, you've created a monster! (story ...)

www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/23465/viruses-and-worms-are-evolving-into-frankenmalware/

OK, this is obviously going to be the AV/infosec story of the week.  (At least this particular story notes that it 
isn't a big deal, although they don't seem to realize it's old news.)

(If any AV/anti-malware/security company wants to hire me, I'd be glad to look back through my archives and find 
threats from 25 years ago and dress them up in new jargon in order to seed out stupid press releases like the one that 
started this.  I've got a million of 'em ...)

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