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RE: Show me the Virrii!


From: "Bojan Zdrnja" <Bojan.Zdrnja () LSS hr>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:34:59 +1300

 

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com 
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of 
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Sent: Monday, 5 January 2004 4:58 p.m.
To: Harry Hoffman
Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Show me the Virrii! 

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.

My point was that if the goal is to provide actual protection for the end
user
rather than something that looks good next to a ruler, you quickly reach a
point of diminishing returns in trying to include more signatures.  At
some

That's why people "invented" in-the-wild list (although it's not 100%
correct always and lagging).
Detection of zoo collections in most cases will get you only better
marketing (our product detects 123240294 viruses).

Cheers,

Bojan

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