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"AI powered heuristics" are so frustrating in AV. "This program runs on the CPU. Malware often runs on the CPU! It must be malware!" They advertise high detect
by nikanj 4y ago
"AI powered heuristics" are so frustrating in AV. "This program runs on the CPU. Malware often runs on the CPU! It must be malware!"
They advertise high detection rates, but the secret is just flagging everything as malware - and thus also catching the sample malware in a stopped-clock-is-sometimes-right kind of way
- arp242 4y agoWhat does "runs on the CPU" mean in this context? Don't all programs "run on the CPU"?
- ketralnis 4y agoThat is in fact the joke
- chc 4y agoThat was their point, yes. These tools treat anything they see malware do as a potential signal of malware, without any consideration of what the activity is. Obviously they're not actually going to flag "running on a CPU" as a sign of malware, but it's a pretty reasonable parody of their methodology.