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'I don't know if I like the idea of a single point of failure; whatever service pushes the update would have a big, fat Wile E. Coyote target on its back.' Thi
by eggbrain 14y ago
'I don't know if I like the idea of a single point of failure; whatever service pushes the update would have a big, fat Wile E. Coyote target on its back.'
This is a solved problem though, right? Antivirus companies deal with this when they push out definition updates that render backdoors ineffective, and yet while they probably are targeted by the virus makers, they have been quite resilient.
- jiggy2011 14y agoNot sure about the AV servers themselves but a common thing for malware to do is to MITM or rebind DNS entries so that AV software updates are served from the attackers server.