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Re: [LUG] OT: McAfee

 

Terry Hill wrote:
>
> For clarity, I wrote a small response to a question posed by Peter in
> case anyone reading this thinks I asked about running a pc without
> antimalware ;)

Given the current "hit" rate of antivirus software, most novel (i.e.
dangerous) threats are not detected by most antivirus software, the
virus authors are winning on that front.

Wrong approach -- fingerprinting really isn't that hard, detecting
malware by it's behaviour is hard, but clearly a better approach than
trying to enumerate the bad code.

I'd tend to the don't use Windows for that sort of thing school of thought.

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