Re: Anti Virus: Improving the defense strategy through proactiveness...

From: Nick FitzGerald (nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/17/01 

From: "Nick FitzGerald" <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:29:36 GMT

"Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

> ... Anti-virus software wastes
> resources and that is likely to increase dramatically as virus making kits
> become more prevalent and viruses start using encryption to make pattern
> matching harder.

Funny -- people were saying just the same way back in 1991-2... 

--
Nick FitzGerald

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