no, the disclosure debate is about software vulnerabilities, not malware. viruses are a fundamental and unavoidable part of general purpose...
i have no idea if he released men into the wild. he certainly published viruses, and some of those viruses did find their way into the wild. to...
considering they employ a virus writer to write their anti-virus, i wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot barge pole, regardless of whether it's free...
there are 2 concepts i'd like to suggest everyone consider: a) just because some host-bound keyloggers don't seem to be able to log keystrokes...
there are, of course, many opinions. i'm of the opinion that policy does not isolate actions/processes, it blocks them. if i'm running a process...
i too have wondered whether pure safe-hex is in it's twilight hours. all good points but those things do help. there won't ever be anything...
2 things: you have to let go of "advertisements". marketing is a heck of a lot more than just advertisements. you need to think bigger...
the difference is hinted at in your own word choice. "black sheep". the people you're talking about are not part of the establishment, they aren't...
i'm sorry but you're assuming that your interpretation of things is the only possible interpretation of things. if i interpret my statements...
could you elaborate on how you think i contradicted myself? i'm curious to know where the things i've said could be construed to be internally...
that depends on how you define "suffer". they'll have to change the way they do business (and change can be painful) but they'll still be doing...
unfortunately, when marketing is their only source of knowledge, lots of people believe. and that's not just a hypothetical situation. where...
until someone creates the department of pre-crime, enforcing laws will have to wait until after the laws get broken. not sure that counts as...
nobody reads the EULAs but lots of people read the marketing and the marketing implies 100% protection more often than not. sometimes it's even in...
in normal anti-malware parlance, prevention and detection are 2 parts of the PDR triad (prevent, detect, recover). prevention happens before....
it means there are no solutions. the malware problem cannot be solved anymore than crime, world hunger, poverty, etc. a solution to the malware...
server-side polymorphism. the strains are generated algorithmically. sometimes a new strain is generated every few hours or minutes or seconds,...
no, what's bothering me is a lie that's been repeated so many times over the past 20+ years that our very language is steeped with terms and...
the first anti-virus is nothing like what people think of when they use the term anti-virus today. scanning, integrity checking, behaviour...
oooOOOooo. "solution" - that's another thing i wish would die. security "solution"s don't solve security problems. at best they solve business...
y'know what i wish was dead? the idea that anti-virus was just a single technology. there's already a word for that one single technology people...
seeing as how i was once contacted by a representative of an AV company looking for assistance getting a particularly vocal virus writer put...
a) there isn't that much unique malware being created. the article gives a number, but that number is almost certainly the number of distinct...
yeah, yeah, people making similar claims are a dime a dozen, but they never actually prove it. they always have some excuse for why they can't...
are you offering a benign exploit of the relevant vulnerability here, or offering to distribute the actual stuxnet malware to anyone who asks in...
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