"George Orwell" <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote in message
news:e8f2b8e9f9029b24ea1cd3774e984881@mixmaster.it ...
> IT-Director.com
> http://************/1dpri
>
> ..you may be unaware of the AVID (Anti Virus Is Dead) campaign that
> I've been running. The goal of the campaign is simple. It aims to bring
> down the AV industry which has, for the best part of 20 years, been
> selling products http://************/pathetic_useless that are
> ineffective at stopping viruses.
>
> To summarize: the reason why AV technology fails so frequently is that
> it takes a wrong and ultimately doomed approach to stopping malware.
> Mostly AV products use signatures to recognize the bad guys, but this
> is almost completely useless for new viruses (some well known products
> let in 80 percent of all new viruses). Where they don't use signatures,
> they use heuristics - which means that they try to recognise the bad
> guys by their behavior. This is ineffective because the virus writers
> test their viruses against AV products before they release them and
> only release the ones that will get through. The reality is that the AV
> companies have been in a technology war with the virus writers and they
> have lost. The outcome is that PCs still get infected by malware at a
> dramatic rate...
>

Well with that logic we might as well kill ourselves as we are all going to die no matter what we do


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Lew/+Silat


The liver is evil. It must be punished.