On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Sumin Tchen <[email protected]> wrote:
> HI Kris,
>
> You might find this study by Imperva and Technion on effectivess of AV
> interesting:
> http://www.imperva.com/docs/HII_Assessing_the_Effectiveness_of_Antivirus_Solutions.pdf
Ah, there's other interesting studies too. A book comes to mind that
discusses instability introduced by security software (its not limited
to anti-virus software):
What’s worse, this situation [software stability] isn’t improving
over time, with the number of kernel crashes due to anti-virus
software remaining more or less constant while most other
classes of drivers get better over time [432] (one of the
contributing reasons why Microsoft got into the anti-virus
business was because it helped reduce the number of
Windows crashes, where “Windows crash” meant “crash
caused by third-party anti-virus product but blamed on
Microsoft”).
- Peter Gutmann, Engineering Security, p. 65.
> Sorry, we don't disclose the "secret sauce".
Trust us :)
I thinks its prudent to ask what's going on since a security app
should improve security and *not* reduce reliability.
Jeff
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