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Message-ID: <200401050010.i050AMAt030990@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu) Subject: Show me the Virrii! On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:01:33 GMT, Richard Maudsley <r_i_c_h@...penworld.com> said: > It currently detects 19 viruses. I need it to detect hundreds. Why? Think it through - the Big Boys may have 6,000 patterns in their database, but let's face it, after the first few dozen, it's just penis-extender time. Remember we're hopefully trying to *manage risk*. And let's be honest with ourselves here - which is more likely to show up at the virus scanner, a copy of Michelangelo, or a new Klez/Sobig/Gibe variant that neither you nor the Big Boys have a pattern for because it only came out 4 hours ago? But you're perfectly willing to accept the risk of a 0-day that you don't have a pattern for, so why should you be unwilling to accept the risk of something even less likely? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 226 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20040104/f7e568c5/attachment.bin
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