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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] question about hacktool.rootkit
  • Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:44:53 -0400

on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:05:34PM -0400, David Matusiak wrote:
> Relying on antivirus to prevent a system infection is a very weak
> approach. Signature-based malware detection is becoming less
> effective every hour.

Yep.

And it's been that way for several years, too.

http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2008/08/anti-virus-products-still-fail-on-fresh.html

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