full-disclosure - Show me the Virrii!

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From: Bojan.Zdrnja at LSS.hr (Bojan Zdrnja)
Subject: Show me the Virrii! 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of 
> Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
> Sent: Monday, 5 January 2004 4:58 p.m.
> To: Harry Hoffman
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Show me the Virrii! 
> 
> > Not to protect against known virii would be negligent and lazy which is
why most
> > modern OS's provide these "fixes" as patches to eventually become part
of the
> > main OS.
> 
> My point was that if the goal is to provide actual protection for the end
user
> rather than something that looks good next to a ruler, you quickly reach a
> point of diminishing returns in trying to include more signatures.  At
some

That's why people "invented" in-the-wild list (although it's not 100%
correct always and lagging).
Detection of zoo collections in most cases will get you only better
marketing (our product detects 123240294 viruses).

Cheers,

Bojan