Re: VirusHammer data structure

On Monday 22 March 2004 10:48 pm, Nick FitzGerald wrote:

> "Gaurav  Tanna" wrote:
> > I am a Graduate student in Northeastern University doing research on
> > opensource antivirus programs.  ...
>
> What, of value, is there to research?
>
> To date, the products that loosely fall into that set are pretty much
> locked in the more-than-a-decade-obsolete "virus scanning is a
> glorified binary grep" view of things...

As a somewhat naive onlooker, can I ask what the current view of things is, as 
far as (presumably) non-open source anti-virus programs are concerned?

I think I understand what a glorified binary grep is, but what are the 
up-to-date (within the last decade) programs doing to detect viruses?

Regards,

Antony.

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