full-disclosure - Re: windows future

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Message-ID: <b1fed46e0908292136h7ee2412ai5a84a7b249b0a6cd@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:36:12 -0700
From: Peter Ferrie <peter.ferrie@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: windows future

> I'm saying that the world's malware authors, in their race to stay
> ahead of AV, are engaging in an uncoordinated, slow-motion DDOS of
> the world's AV systems.  They are flooding the blacklists, and this
> flooding is accelerating.  If it continues, the world's AV systems
> will be useless, as will be the machines they are protecting.

You are extrapolating, based on an incorrect assumption - that
blacklists will exist forever.
When the number of bad files exceeds the number of good files, then
whitelists will reign instead.

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