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The Current State of the Malware/AntiVirus Arms Race
An anonymous reader writes "An article at Net Security explores how malware has developed self-defense techniques. This evolution is the result of the double-edged sword of the malware arms race. Anti-virus technology is ever more advanced, but as a result surviving viruses are increasingly sophisticated. What Net Security offers is a lengthy look at the current state of that arms race. 'There are many different kinds of malware self-defense techniques and these can be classified in a variety of ways. Some of these technologies are meant to bypass antivirus signature databases, while others are meant to hinder analysis of the malicious code. One malicious program may attempt to conceal itself in the system, while another will not waste valuable processor resources on this, choosing instead to search for and counter specific types of antivirus protection. These different tactics can be classified in different ways and put into various categories.'"
it's the computers that suffer. Wont someone please think of the computers?!
-Ours is the wisdom of Solomon, the magic of Merlyn, the fall of Icaris.
Malware evolution? That's just theory and conjecture. If god had wanted our computers to be free of viruses he wouldn't have invented Microsoft.
(There goes some karma.)
Developers: We can use your help.
I thought these problems ended years ago when the year of the linux desktop came and everyone stopped using windows... You mean there are still poor souls out there that don't use linux or mac?
Sam
That's pretty much a given here on
Maybe Microsoft could have a pop up for every process that tries to run, then YOU would have controll. Ya, that sound likes a great idea.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
This XP install has been going for over a year
Geez, and I thought Gentoo was supposed to take a while.