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Common Malware Enumeration Initiative

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the needs-a-better-acronym dept.

LogError writes "The Common Malware Enumeration Initiative was just announced. Headed by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and supported by an editorial board of anti-virus vendors and related organizations it should provide a neutral, shared identification method for malware outbreaks."

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  1. Default Permit by lapagecp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is just another example of getting entrenched in a default permit world which has proven itself time and again not to work. We need to be enumerating the good programs and not the other way around.

    1. Re:Default Permit by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You've taken a good concept and turned it on its ear.

      Default Deny is good. Centralized lists of "good" software is bad. Think about it for a second and you'll realize why.

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