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December 27, 2007

If users could be trained,

Filed under: Spyware News — Doug Woodall @ 10:36 am
The best answer is if users could be trained not to fall for the social engineering tricks that make most modern malware effective. But sadly, people don’t seem to be getting smarter fast enough.
True, so very true.
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Instability and Modern Anti-Virus Software

It’s hard to get mad at the anti-virus industry. What choice does it have? If it were to test signatures thoroughly before releasing them the industry would be so far behind the threat landscape that its products would become useless. It’s true that the more frequent the updates the more effective the products will be, all other things held constant, which of course they aren’t.

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If users could be trained,

Filed under: Spyware News — Doug Woodall @ 10:36 am
The best answer is if users could be trained not to fall for the social engineering tricks that make most modern malware effective. But sadly, people don’t seem to be getting smarter fast enough.
True, so very true.
clipped from www.eweek.com
Instability and Modern Anti-Virus Software

It’s hard to get mad at the anti-virus industry. What choice does it have? If it were to test signatures thoroughly before releasing them the industry would be so far behind the threat landscape that its products would become useless. It’s true that the more frequent the updates the more effective the products will be, all other things held constant, which of course they aren’t.

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