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The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software?
nosig writes "PCMagazine is running a story around the latest AV-TEST response time and proactive detection test for the latest MS05-039 vulnerability related attacks. The test results were announced by the author to the focus-virus discussion list.
What's really impresive, besides the huge difference between response times among antivirus companies, is that two products succeeded to proactively detect all 6 attacks without any signature update.
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YOU FAIL IT!
Experience taught me that no av solution is good enough if it's just some string scanner. The best solutions I've come across are those which offer string search + resident protection + web shield + resident p2p/torrent and im scan + file hashing with file altering monitoring, and the whole combined with a good firewall. With time I have found the one for the first and one for the second task which I'm satisfied to the point that I quite rarely evaluate newly popped up solutions and install these every time. I won't name them 'cause I'm no free advertiser for nobody. I'm sure the thousands of security experts the /. crowd has :P will provide you with a gazillion of options to choose from :]
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Even ignoring the implicit GNU/stupidity in that logic, it makes zero GNU/sense. Why would they write viruses they can't GNU/identify, GNU/huh?
I heard about this ages ago. I think it was called something like "mac"... ;)
Just follow these simple rules:
There is no step two!
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