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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: Re: Stormy weather for malware defenses 2007-03-20
Anonymous
That's all well and good, but it only works until your CEO tries to play bridge online and it gets blocked. Holy hell gets raised, explanations are offered and ignored, and what is arguably the system in most need of security is left wide open....

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