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Is Anti-Virus Really Dead? (sans.org)
19 points by PhearTheCeal on April 10, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


As long as security uses a blacklist, it will be possible to evade it pretty easily. There are products that use a whitelist such as bit9.com, but that approach mostly works in corporate networks where they can set policy about what executable files can be run--period.



Thank you.


Has it ever worked against these kinds of techniques though?

I only ever thought that windows antivirus software was a sticking plaster for non-sensitive machines to make them get sick a little slower, not something that would you would use to safeguard valuable commercial data.


AV is just the last line of defense. Intelligence is the first line.




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