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The 2008 Malware Challenge

Posted by samzenpus on from the dirty-tubes dept.

John Hering writes "With over 25 papers submitted, the results of the 2008 Malware Challenge are in. Malware has become an ever-present danger in today's connected world: The 2008 Malware Challenge was created to help increase awareness and understanding of the threat associated with malware by challenging contestants to reverse engineer and analyze real world malware from the wild."

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  1. You want malware, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    then check out the firmware for the first-generation Zune MP3 player! Shit fucking blows up!

    1. Re:You want malware, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      For those unaware, apparently, a few hours ago -EVERY- 30GB Zune stopped functioning at around the same time. Mass hysteria on Zune forums all over the internet.

    2. Re:You want malware, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's true. And to think, I was considering buying an Xbox 360 today.

    3. Re:You want malware, by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yep, its true, their code is so bad MS cant even get the Y2K bug in the right year!

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  2. eh? by MegaFur · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I know that Malware is a superset of computer viruses, but most virus scanners are more like malware scanners these days. I understand that the spirit of the challenge is to reverse engineer code that malware checkers currently don't catch, but isn't this a little like giving away for free that which some company down the street is charging money for? Maybe I'm still not getting it.

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  3. Let's just say ... by thuerrsch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    2008 was another year of malware on the desktop!

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  4. Why not link to the actual event site? by gatekeep · · Score: 2, Informative

    First of all, this story should probably link to the actual event site.

    Secondly, the results have been available since 11/19/08. This is hardly news at this point.