Stormy weather for malware defenses

Stormy weather for malware defenses
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-03-05

When the Storm Worm swept through the Internet in mid-January, the program's writers took a brute force approach to evading antivirus defenses: They created a massive number of slightly different copies of the program and released them all at the same time.

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Signatures 2007-03-06
Calyptix Security

this is so 90's 2007-03-06
lsi

Stormy weather for malware defenses 2007-03-07
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)

Re: Stormy weather for malware defenses 2007-03-09
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: Re: Stormy weather for malware defenses 2007-03-20
Anonymous

Stormy weather for malware defenses 2007-03-07
Amit

There is an interesting site called : www.securitysamaritans.com which tracks the vulnerabilities in security products. As they say that your weaknesses are same as the weaknesses in the security mechanisms, this trend of attackign security products will tend to grow.

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