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A suggestion to all AV vendors...
From: bipin gautam <visitbipin () yahoo com>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 19:29:26 -0800 (PST)
These days, its rare to see a windows BOX without an AV. But, there are still lot of windows boxes without Proper critical security patches and will be... I'd compare see those computers as a castle with security guards at front door but a open hole in the back door. Here I see a similar situation. Even with a proper AV signatures those system get compromised, AV disabled and stuffz. I see people fall of their chair when they see an AV warning in their monitor but doesn't care much about security updates for their PC. A simple yet effective solution would be, for AV vendors to (say) add the vulnerable system dll's, execudables etc... in a threat list (Refering to Microsoft's KB or something similar) And after completing the virus scan, suggest the users to download proper patches accordingly to threat level and directing the end users towards proper link to do so? But hay, there are AV vendors that don't much care about SPYWARES! I hope i was clear, for what i am trying to explain (O; Bipin Gautam http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- A suggestion to all AV vendors... bipin gautam (Dec 06)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Ron (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Kenneth Ng (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Ron (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Florian Weimer (Dec 12)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Ron (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... colinm () clientsecure net (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Mary Landesman (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Kenneth Ng (Dec 07)
- Re: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 07)
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- RE: A suggestion to all AV vendors... Todd Towles (Dec 07)