Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees

Re:Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ... by yabun on Friday August 14, 2015 @05:51PM (#10063186)

A lot of new malware is self-modifying. In situations where this is the case checksums lose most if not all of their value. Heuristics in such situations are really the only viable option.

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Re:Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ... by kazinator on Friday August 14, 2015 @07:53PM (#10063689)

No, I mean to know what is clean.

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Re:Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ... by yabun on Saturday August 15, 2015 @12:56AM (#10064367)

OK, but that's a very large data set that to track - does AV software actually do that?

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