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Malware vs. Anti-Malware, 20 Years Into The Fray
jcatcw writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols considers the dissimilarities between malware of yore and current infiltrations as we approach the 20th anniversary of the Robert Morris worm. Modern malware apps curl up and make themselves at home in your system, where they wait for a chance to snatch an important password or a credit card number. Welcome to the era of capitalist hacking. Any self-respecting malware program today is polymorphic, making signature-based antivirus approaches difficult. Heuristics and virtual sandboxes offer alternatives, but all such methods are reactive. Unfortunately, monitoring lists and networks is about the only current alternative."
Wish I could get paid just for clicking "approve" and filling in the text in the "from the ____ dept".
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Everyone knows it was Philip Morris, the guy who makes the cigarettes.
"It doesn't cost enough, and it makes too much sense."
Surely then youd need to bundle GCC with your virus because most people dont have a compiler, meaning all viruses would be GPLd and you have to have to offer every machine you infect the source...hmm
either that or you have to develop a self compiling virus, which has the chance of suffering random code changes and evolving...hmmm
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!