posted in Reading material on Feb 27th, 2010
I found an intresting article on the symantec blog why the old pattern matching AV method fails more and more and how they face this situation. A recommended reading during a coffee break. Reputation-based Security: Suspicious.Insight detections on Virus Total We recently upgraded our scanner on Virus Total to include our new reputation-based security engine. [...]
posted in Reading material on Oct 9th, 2009
An article that describes in simple steps how an AV engine is structured. Easy to understand, not too technical and without any code. Building an Anti-Virus engine (by Markus Schmall, 2002) The article will describe the basic ideas, concepts, components and approaches involved in developing an anti-virus program from scratch from a developer’s/software engineer’s point [...]
posted in Stuff on Jul 19th, 2009
It’s on my todo list since last Tuesday to inform the AV companies about the Minipanzer release but I was to busy, lazy, distracted somehow to finish this last “Tuesday release task”. After some time searching the web for contact forms or email addresses I’ve only found two of them : Kaspersky and Antivir. If [...]