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. [...]

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An extract from Brian Krebs last blog post. I have often recommended file-scanning services like VirusTotal and Jotti, which allow visitors to upload a suspicious file and scan it against dozens of commercial anti-virus tools. If a scan generates any virus alerts or red flags, the report produced by the scan is shared with all [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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