Re: VirusHammer data structure

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:58:19PM +0000, Antony Stone wrote:

> 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?

Very different things.   No single AV program uses a single method to detect
all types of viruses.

For some information read http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1650, which
is a pretty good article by Costin Raiu.

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Fridrik Skulason   Frisk Software International   phone: +354-540-7400
Author of F-PROT   E-mail: [email protected]       fax:   +354-540-7401


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