Re: today in the news

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Dude VanWinkle:

> "At the point we see it as a CERT, which is very early on -- the most
> popular brands of antivirus on the market … have an 80 percent miss
> rate. That is not a detection rate that is a miss rate.(")

80% seems fairly low, but it depends on how you count.

> "So if you are running these pieces of software, eight out of 10
> pieces of malicious code are going to get in," said Ingram.

If you've got up-to-date OS patches and your AV software blocks the
most widely used downloaders, the numbers are better.  Of course, it's
still far away from risk-free porn surfing (or ad-clicking--has anyone
notice ErrorSafe ads on Dilbert?), but I suppose you are unaffected by
significantly more than just 20% of the malware floating around.

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