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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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Re: Stormy weather for malware defenses 2007-03-09
Anonymous
The future is the white list of resources (files, I/O, network connections) that any program/user may access, ban on everything else, thin client.

Not a big thing on unix-like systems at least from technical point of view. The only problem - 95% of desktops is MS Win......

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