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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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Stormy weather for malware defenses 2007-03-07
Matthew Murphy
Storm demonstrates the problem of relying on threat-specific response to effectively block threats. The Storm authors obviously know what they're doing -- the "death by a thousand cuts" strategy is a way of blasting open the zero-hour protection gap that has plagued AV for years.

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