____/ Phil on Wednesday 17 October 2007 19:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Does antivirus have a future?
>>
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>> | Peter Gutmann, a researcher at the University of Auckland who presented
>> | the results of a study of the commercial market for malware at August's
>> | Defcon, estimates that a good virus programmer can make as much as
>> | $200,000 a year (here, a 660KB PDF). Alan Cox, an open-source security
>> | researcher, points out some additional possibilities. One is malware
>> | designed to sit under today's virtual machines. A proof-of-concept paper
>> | proposing such an attack, called Subvirt (PDF), appeared last year,
>> | written by three researchers from Microsoft and two from the University of
>> | Michigan. A presentation at last year's Black Hat security conference from
>> | Joanna Rutkowska, a researcher at Coseinc, a Singapore-based security
>> | company, covered a much leaner attack she called Blue Pill, which targets
>> | the virtualisation built into Windows Vista
>> |
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>> | and into current processors from both AMD and Intel.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.spam
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> I found this interesting reading.
>
> I was able to take time away from work to read this article because my
> company supplied Windows PC now takes 1.5 hours to virus scan my company
> PC every mid-week at noon. This is a mandatory scan and I cannot stop it
> without the intranet cops coming after me.
>
> I am reading this on my own linux PC, because the Windows PC is useless
> during the virus scan.
Yes, I saw that with on Supervisor's Thinkpad. It's totally useless when the AV
S/W kicks in because the round-robin scheduler is very dumb (apparently even
dumber in Vista, according to Robert Love).
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