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Street-wise solution to computer viruses
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| One is a version of Microsoftâs operating
| system like Windows XP. While the other is
| a version of freely downloadable Linux
| operating systems like Ubuntu.
|
| âThe viruses usually attack Windows
| applications and operating systems while
| Linux is resistant,â he said.
|
| Wambugu says that once a user detects a
| virus on the Windows system, he can restart
| with the Linux OS which will enable him to
| locate the virus and delete it.
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http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/-/539444/684998/-/s11q8s/-/
Related:
Schneier: Lots of Security Software Is 'snake Oil'
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| IDG News Service: So what do you think is the biggest threat right now?
|
| Schneier: Crime.
|
| IDG News Service: So how do you fix it? It's expensive to investigate, it's
| cross-jurisdictional.
|
| Schneier: It might not be fixable. A lot of [the solution] is going to be
| making the things that criminals are going after harder to get. You're not
| going to stop the criminals.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144938/schneier_lots_of_security_software_is_snake_oil.html
Trend, Sophos and McAfee flunk Vista SP1 anti-virus tests
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| Top tier anti-virus vendors including McAfee, Trend Micro, and Sophos all
| failed to secure Windows Vista SP1 in recent independent tests.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/vista_sp1_av_tests/
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
| and into current processors from both AMD and Intel.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.spam
Is an antivirus gap looming?
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| The failure of antivirus companies to adapt to the dramatic malware
| appearance rates in 2007 tells us there's time for a change and there's room
| for a new class of tools. "AV is dead" is the battle cry of a new industry
| analyst report. Antivirus companies may not be going the way of the dodo, but
| to many customers, the concept of antivirus as the last line of defense has
| been thrown out the window. It's time for a better approach, one that can
| keep up and really defend networks.
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http://news.com.com/2010-7348_3-6195322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Predicting the demise of antivirus apps
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| "It's the beginning of the end for antivirus," says Robin Bloor, partner
| at consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, who adds he began his
| "antivirus is dead" campaign a year ago and feels even more strongly
| about it today. "I'm going to keep beating this drum. The approach
| antivirus vendors take is completely wrong. The criminals working to
| release these viruses against computer users are testing against
| antivirus software. They know what works and how to create variants."
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/0047A206FF40A92ECC2572C3000FD867
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