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Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:02:47 -0400
On 8/30/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote: > On 8/30/06, Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com> wrote: > > Drsolly wrote: > > > Uh - no. That's not being a good guy. Being a good guy, means you deleted > > > all copies of the virus. > > > > Speaking of which, do you want Consumer Reports to delete their 5500 > > "viruses", or do you want them to submit them to AV to see if they are > > really viral? > > > rhetorical question alert!! > > since most viruses are met with applications that analyze them (99%) > the addition of 5.5k would only help the analysis or prove 99% of the > company is useless ;-) Sorry, I don't think I speak the same language you do - could you reword that for me, please?
I did an eval of most AV companies for the Campus AntiVirus review. A lot of them were bragging about their auto analysis software. If a client picks up a possible "unknown" virus, it is sent to the AV companies servers for analysis. I was told by Kaspersky that 90 some odd percent of the files sent are analyzed by a fully automated process, and the "tricky ones" that the automated process couldnt handle were analyzed by humans. I just assumed this was industry standard. Did I assume wrong? -JP _______________________________________________ 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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- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Nick FitzGerald (Aug 29)
- RE: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Larry Seltzer (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Blue Boar (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Drsolly (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Dude VanWinkle (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Blue Boar (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Blue Boar (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Dude VanWinkle (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Drsolly (Aug 30)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Dude VanWinkle (Aug 30)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Drsolly (Aug 30)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Drsolly (Aug 30)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Nick FitzGerald (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Dude VanWinkle (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Nick FitzGerald (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Drsolly (Aug 30)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Blue Boar (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Nick FitzGerald (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 29)
- Re: write viruses? it's controversy time of the month Dude VanWinkle (Aug 29)