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There's lots of 'Do we need Kaspersky' type questions in here already. The more pertinent question is whether AV is actually effective, or if stronger counterme
by throwamay1241 7y ago
There's lots of 'Do we need Kaspersky' type questions in here already. The more pertinent question is whether AV is actually effective, or if stronger countermeasures like application whitelisting are needed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcgHkeZ1i4&list=PLqz80p7f6dFuKBsESxMLjrI3ZWzTQoaPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcgHkeZ1i4&list=PLqz80p7f6d...
- josefx 7y agoYou would need a document whitelist since many programs can be hijacked using buffer overflow attacks or outright support execution of arbritrary scripts.
- throwamay1241 7y agoOr we could, you know, just stop using Microsoft Office and Adobe products which are a huge, if not the biggest culprit of that kind of crazy behaviour.
- throwamay1241 7y agoI'll also point out that defending against buffer overflows which are considered vulnerabilities is a far saner boundary than a blacklist of files which grows infinitely.