Comment Re:Avoid The Obvious Punctuation Error... (Score 1) 100
if you take a look at the stats most viruses that are released are variants. This however does not make for an easy task for AV companies to detect.
A Sk uses a different packaging tool and most AV products will not detect the variant. There some AV engines that do detect variants. And do it very well.
My company uses Symantec and we were hit by a new virus last week. No updates on symantec site, and LONG ASS hold times to talk to some kid, somewhere far far away, who reads a script and can't help me.
I know a few people who work at a competive AV company. A quick call to them to see if they were aware of a new virus in the wild. At this point they were not. I transfered the virus to my home server to ship it off to their virus lab and what do you know? As I run their AV on my mail server I was not able to send the sample as it was detected as a virus.
I quickly removed symantec from the infected machines and installed Sophos. It detected 9 variants of current viruses that symantec just looked by.
The process that goes on in a virus lab is almost insane. i have had the chance to tour one before and there is almost too much work that goes on to detect, disect, and create a signature for.
A Sk uses a different packaging tool and most AV products will not detect the variant. There some AV engines that do detect variants. And do it very well.
My company uses Symantec and we were hit by a new virus last week. No updates on symantec site, and LONG ASS hold times to talk to some kid, somewhere far far away, who reads a script and can't help me.
I know a few people who work at a competive AV company. A quick call to them to see if they were aware of a new virus in the wild. At this point they were not. I transfered the virus to my home server to ship it off to their virus lab and what do you know? As I run their AV on my mail server I was not able to send the sample as it was detected as a virus.
I quickly removed symantec from the infected machines and installed Sophos. It detected 9 variants of current viruses that symantec just looked by.
The process that goes on in a virus lab is almost insane. i have had the chance to tour one before and there is almost too much work that goes on to detect, disect, and create a signature for.
