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Re: The AV.
From: James Kehl <shykta () dione ids pl>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:39:06 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
It's slow, it's old, it's reactive, it's out. It's good for detecting and controlling old threats and cleaning up relatively old threats. I believe it will always be good and even important for that.
Too right! I'd say a crucial question is: why do we still have viruses? File infectors should have died out with filesystem access control. Worms should have died out with firewalls and Patch Tuesdays. Don't even mention the "decrypt-this-zipfile-run-this-exe-and-then-die" emails. What happened? James _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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