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OpenAntiVirus Project Founders Interviewed

Posted by timothy on from the stomping-viruses dept.

sheriff_p writes "Rainer Link and Kurt Huwig started the OpenAntiVirus project two years ago. In this interview with Virus Bulletin, they talk about ongoing projects, the advantages of having an open-source anti-virus product, and defend their choice of Java for the main scanning engine."

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  1. Re:Questions, Questions, Questions... by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just because the source code is open doesn't mean the signature files would be any less secure than current signature files. I don't know what methods current virus scanners use to protect signatures from easy decoding, but we all know that security through obscurity is easily broken. I'd bet a simple memory debugger and a VMWare type environment could easily snarf any signatures from current virus products.

    BTW- Timothy, I wasn't trolling, I just though it was funny that your story sat here for 3 hours without a post. No hard feelings. :)

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  2. Re:Questions, Questions, Questions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Are the signature files open source too?