The Antivirus Era Is Over

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http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428166/the-antivirus-era-is-over/

Flame is just the latest in a series of incidents that suggest that conventional antivirus software is an outmoded way of protecting computers against malware. "Flame was a failure for the antivirus industry," Mikko Hypponen, the founder and chief research officer of antivirus firm F-Secure, wrote last week. "We really should have been able to do better. But we didn't. We were out of our league, in our own game.
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Scary. Now to check and find such virus on my PC's.
 
Linux firewall with URL Block.

MSE (and others) on the PC's.

Had a malware infection on two PC's three months ago. but was easy to remove. The cause of this infection was IE.

Instructed world+dog to use Firefox and not IE. IE is braindead and belongs in hell.

So far all is quiet and relaxed. :cool:
 
Makes you wonder what viruses there can be on your PC right now and not even know it :eek:
 
This whole Flame virus is being blown out of proportion. Just patch your Windows machine and get on with life.

One thing though, if Flame pans out to be a government-sanctioned virus, such as Stuxnet (US sanctioned), I wonder whether the companies affected would have a liability claim against the responsible government...
 
lcbxx said:
This whole Flame virus is being blown out of proportion. Just patch your Windows machine and get on with life.

One thing though, if Flame pans out to be a government-sanctioned virus, such as Stuxnet (US sanctioned), I wonder whether the companies affected would have a liability claim against the responsible government...
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Stuxnet was also blown out of proportion.

As was the other viruses/trojans before.

Except the Melissa/I love you one...
 
I have a PC with a hard to crack problem, when it goes to sleep mode after a while and you want it to awake again then it could take anywhere from instant recovery to never. Most of the times 10-15 minutes is the average. I rather switch of power and reboot. I thought of a virus or Malware but scans come up negative. S3 settings in bios made no difference. I want to set up new but at the moment cannot afford the will to do it due to many installed applications (Engineering software) et al.
 
wily me said:
I have a PC with a hard to crack problem, when it goes to sleep mode after a while and you want it to awake again then it could take anywhere from instant recovery to never. Most of the times 10-15 minutes is the average. I rather switch of power and reboot. I thought of a virus or Malware but scans come up negative. S3 settings in bios made no difference. I want to set up new but at the moment cannot afford the will to do it due to many installed applications (Engineering software) et al.
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Use hibernation instead. It saves your state to disk as opposed to RAM. Much more reliable, albeit a few seconds slower and a power outage does not result in the hibernation state being lost.
 
lcbxx said:
Use hibernation instead. It saves your state to disk as opposed to RAM. Much more reliable, albeit a few seconds slower and a power outage does not result in the hibernation state being lost.
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Thanks, never though of that. Will try it and see if it makes a difference.
 
The_Librarian said:
Stuxnet was also blown out of proportion.

As was the other viruses/trojans before.

Except the Melissa/I love you one...
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Stuxnet was blown out of proportion? Are you high?
The sheer scale and complexity involved with that virus was truly staggering, and it's effect was immense (It had an actual effect on the Geopolitical landscape!!!)
 
JStrike said:
Stuxnet was blown out of proportion? Are you high?
The sheer scale and complexity involved with that virus was truly staggering, and it's effect was immense (It had an actual effect on the Geopolitical landscape!!!)
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Stuxnet was targeted at a specific installation/set of machines. I wasn't speaking about its effect on the geopolitical landscape, it was actually more of a damp squib when compared to more infective viruses (slammer etc). But geopolitically, as you said, it had a bigger effect.

Had stuxnet been coded to infect at will... it would've changed the current way we think about security totally - overnight.
 
The_Librarian said:
Stuxnet was targeted at a specific installation/set of machines. I wasn't speaking about its effect on the geopolitical landscape, it was actually more of a damp squib when compared to more infective viruses (slammer etc). But geopolitically, as you said, it had a bigger effect.

Had stuxnet been coded to infect at will... it would've changed the current way we think about security totally - overnight.
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Slammer just slowed down internet traffic for a while by doing glorified DDOS.
Stuxnet damaged nuclear centrifuges.

It's not even comparable. And as for the complexity of the code involved, Stuxnet makes Slammer look like a script kiddy worm
 
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