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What happens when viruses use vulnerabilities inside of whitelisted applications to tunnel past your firewall and a/v? They already do it with IE and svchost frequently.

One needs a virus scanner with strong "heuristic" scanning which uses algorithms to detect malware "in the wild". Best one I know of is Nod32 from Eset.

Unlike definition based scanners you don't need to wait for the a/v company to analyse the virus before they can catch it. (and yes, keep those firewalls running)
Posted by: zathrus@...   Posted on: 07/15/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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What an impossible job  zmud | 07/15/09
Not impossible at all  croberts | 07/15/09
RE: Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware  unredeemed | 07/15/09
heuristic scanners  zathrus@... | 07/15/09
Threatfire  kyron.gustafson@... | 07/16/09
White lists are good, but ....  kd5auq | 07/15/09
Tough job but they are paid to do.  Been_Done_Before | 07/15/09
Best weapon is an informed user  Uncle Ebeneezer | 07/15/09
RE: Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware  john00027@... | 07/15/09
RE: Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware  john00027@... | 07/15/09
Could you tell us exactly which "Major antivirus engines" failed?  Speednet | 07/16/09
Duh!  bruce@... | 07/16/09
RE: Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware  Agnostic_OS | 07/16/09
RE: Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware  malcatraz | 07/16/09
Malwarebytes not great on viruses  bobpeg | 07/17/09
malwarebytes vs pc-tools  jwgvmn@... | 07/24/09
RE: Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware  littlepitcher | 07/16/09
RE: Malwarebytes vs PC Tools  wyse_tech2000@... | 07/17/09
Root cause analysis, anyone?  jdickey | 07/21/09
anti virus  CharlesEtheridge@... | 10/05/09
RE: Major antivirus engines failing to detect malware  CharlesEtheridge@... | 10/05/09

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