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Those of use in the AV industry know that in practice AV software misses a lot of stuff, and updates need to be deployed properly as well. It's quite possible
by readams 12y ago
Those of use in the AV industry know that in practice AV software misses a lot of stuff, and updates need to be deployed properly as well. It's quite possible that AV software was installed but failed to catch this infection.
- userbinator 12y agoFalse positives are also a problem. In particular, there are stories of "Hello World" programs being detected as malicious.
- TehCorwiz 12y agoWhat you say is generally true. But we know that the lawyer's AV caught it. I have trouble believing that a law firm has better IT than a police digital forensic group. I guess one way of determining if it would have been caught by outdated or marginal AV software would be to figure out when the variants mentioned in the article were identified and added to most AV DBs. A project for another day perhaps.