davidh
October 24th, 2009, 01:56 PM
Trend Micro CEO: hackers hitting AV infrastructure
Rogue AV is designed to make antivirus vendors look bad, Eva Chen says
By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 10/23/2009
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According to her, a lot of today's security problems are designed not only to steal information from victims, but to undermine the credibility of companies like Trend Micro itself.
One way hackers have done this is by changing the way their software is put together each time they attack, forcing the AV vendors to bloat up their products with hundreds of thousands of new detection signatures.
In response, Trend was one of the first companies to push reputation-based technology into its antivirus products, developing its Smart Protection Network to identify and block not just viruses themselves, but also the malicious Web sites that are used to distribute malware.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102309-trend-micro-ceo-hackers-hitting.html..
Rogue AV is designed to make antivirus vendors look bad, Eva Chen says
By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 10/23/2009
...
According to her, a lot of today's security problems are designed not only to steal information from victims, but to undermine the credibility of companies like Trend Micro itself.
One way hackers have done this is by changing the way their software is put together each time they attack, forcing the AV vendors to bloat up their products with hundreds of thousands of new detection signatures.
In response, Trend was one of the first companies to push reputation-based technology into its antivirus products, developing its Smart Protection Network to identify and block not just viruses themselves, but also the malicious Web sites that are used to distribute malware.
...
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102309-trend-micro-ceo-hackers-hitting.html..