Re[2]: Get your computer viruses here!

[Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com>]

Good Day,

vs> security people can learn from it. We wouldnt have techniques like binary
vs> diffing or call graph comparison / analysis if it wasnt for malware. And
vs> those methods are useful for much more than malware.

We would, but they wouldn't get as much publicity in our circles.

vs> Also the idea of software protections (packing and encoding) that come  out
vs> of malware are useful for copyright protection and other "binary security"
vs> needs.

Really? Like ideas lifted out of rootkits?

vs> Again this is a rather subjective subject (ahah). You could make the analogy
vs> that a biological virus has no good uses

That would be a flawed analogy as it it now obvious they played a
significant role in evolution.

vs> This whole idea of publically available malware however is a "new" thing and
vs> I guess it defies analogy.

Is it, by any chance and in any way, similar to those late 80s, early
90s virus exchange bulletin boards?

vs> I do see the difference between malware and a tool (i hope) but
vs> the langauge

Malware has one use and is essentially evil. Tool is what you make out
or with it.

-- 
Best regards,
 Pierre                            mailto:pierre () datarescue com

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