First Reboot Into Safe Mode
I do some informal virus removal type stuff once in a while on various forums and I often come across a topic where the first thing I see is “Reboot into safe mode, run your antivirus.” Obviously this...
View ArticleDealing With Advanced Threats – Where AV Fails
If the Flame malware gets one message to the masses it should be that antiviruses are a failure. The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can’t protect against targeted malware created by...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need An Antivirus With Windows 8
With Windows 8 out a lot of users are wondering whether they need antivirus with Windows 8, or if they need to pay for an antivirus, or do something else entirely. In my opinion if you’ve been paying...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Detection
I received a comment on one of my articles recently about antiviruses being useless and I’d like to talk a bit about that. I personally do not run any antivirus software – not on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 and...
View ArticleSecurity Software Usage Of Mitigation Techniques With Slopfinder
I recently read a post that used static analysis of executable files to see which applications were using DEP/ASLR and to what extent. This inspired me to perform the same analysis with the same tool,...
View ArticleThe AntiVirus Era
For the last 30 years the computer security industry has been dominated by antivirus. Companies like Symantec are worth billions of dollars, and their products are deployed across millions of...
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