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Re: Show me the Virrii!
From: Harry Hoffman <hhoffman () ip-solutions net>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:55:49 -0500
Hi, Quoting Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu: I'm not sure that not protecting against known threats is a good idea. The willingness to accept a "0-day" is limited by the necessity of Internet usage, which (usually today) is a nesessity. Not to protect against known virii would be negligent and lazy which is why most modern OS's provide these "fixes" as patches to eventually become part of the main OS. Cheers, Harry *> 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? *> -- Harry Hoffman hhoffman () ip-solutions net #----------------------------------------------------------------# # Harry: version 4.0a # # Known bugs: # # 1) Verbal output may occur before data processing is complete. # # 2) Loudspeaker option may activate without being invoked. # # 3) Other bugs as reported # #----------------------------------------------------------------# ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IpSolutions: http://www.ip-solutions.net/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Re: Show me the Virrii!, (continued)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Nicob (Jan 07)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Nick FitzGerald (Jan 07)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 07)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Nick FitzGerald (Jan 08)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Nicob (Jan 07)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Richard Maudsley (Jan 04)
- RE: Show me the Virrii! Richard Maudsley (Jan 05)
- RE: Show me the Virrii! Nick FitzGerald (Jan 07)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Harry Hoffman (Jan 04)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 04)
- RE: Show me the Virrii! Bojan Zdrnja (Jan 04)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Nick FitzGerald (Jan 07)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! S G Masood (Jan 07)
- Re: Show me the Virrii! Richard Maudsley (Jan 07)