> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 5 January 2004 4:58 p.m. > To: Harry Hoffman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Show me the Virrii! > > > Not to protect against known virii would be negligent and lazy which is why most > > modern OS's provide these "fixes" as patches to eventually become part of the > > main OS. > > My point was that if the goal is to provide actual protection for the end user > rather than something that looks good next to a ruler, you quickly reach a > point of diminishing returns in trying to include more signatures. At some
That's why people "invented" in-the-wild list (although it's not 100% correct always and lagging). Detection of zoo collections in most cases will get you only better marketing (our product detects 123240294 viruses). Cheers, Bojan _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html