Re: Show me the Virrii!

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:01:33 GMT, Richard Maudsley <r_i_c_h () btopenworld com>  said:

> It currently detects 19 viruses. I need it to detect hundreds.

Why?

Think it through - the Big Boys may have 6,000 patterns in their database, but
let's face it, after the first few dozen, it's just penis-extender time.

Remember we're hopefully trying to *manage risk*.  And let's be honest with
ourselves here - which is more likely to show up at the virus scanner, a copy
of Michelangelo, or a new Klez/Sobig/Gibe variant that neither you nor the Big
Boys have a pattern for because it only came out 4 hours ago?

But you're perfectly willing to accept the risk of a 0-day that you don't have
a pattern for, so why should you be unwilling to accept the risk of something
even less likely?

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