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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
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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