How fast is fast? The time it takes an av, spyware or firewall
company to react to a real-time threat. I think there is going
to have to be a pooling of anti-virus, mail sweeping and firewall
protection knowledge. There should be a central policy that
can be reported and distributed to the various vendors and
clients that autoupdates the protecting software. Simply a
crisis-mail-alert with appropriate information for translation into a protecting shield that updates all av, mail and firewall
utilities.
Has anyone written or read a spec. on standardizing worm, virus or other alerts with not just there's a'sploit, but a method of reporting the 'sploit or adware, malware in a way that the vendors and clients could instantly counter with a new filter or fix?
See :-
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/ http://www.cve.mitre.org/
I agree there should be an open standard and common public libraries of exploits and fixes.
Aaron
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