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Information Technology News Every anti-virus scanner on the market compromised by critical vulnerabilities
Information Technology News Every anti-virus scanner on the market compromised by critical vulnerabilities | Every anti-virus scanner on the market compromised by critical vulnerabilities |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Tuesday, 08 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 The company lays most of the blame for this bizarre state
of affairs, where the security solution has seemingly become part of
the security problem, squarely at the door of parsing. "The principle
functions as follows: virus scanners must recognise as many "Malware"
applications as possible – and thereby comprehend and process a large
number of file formats" n.runs AG says. In other words, the more parsing that occurs, the higher the malware recognition but equally the larger the attack surface. And there lies the rub, the larger that attack surface the greater the target the anti-virus solution becomes. I suspect that it will not take long for the assorted security vendors whose applications have been comprehensively dismissed as "opening the door to attackers" to arrive with a counter argument. Let's hope it is a good one...
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