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Re: [Full-disclosure] windows future
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] windows future
- From: Peter Ferrie <peter.ferrie@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:36:12 -0700
> I'm saying that the world's malware authors, in their race to stay
> ahead of AV, are engaging in an uncoordinated, slow-motion DDOS of
> the world's AV systems. They are flooding the blacklists, and this
> flooding is accelerating. If it continues, the world's AV systems
> will be useless, as will be the machines they are protecting.
You are extrapolating, based on an incorrect assumption - that
blacklists will exist forever.
When the number of bad files exceeds the number of good files, then
whitelists will reign instead.
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