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On the value of virus notifications

On the value of virus notifications

Posted Aug 28, 2003 7:35 UTC (Thu) by akukula (guest, #3862)
In reply to: On the value of virus notifications by jamesh
Parent article: On the value of virus notifications

It's not that easy. A worm dosen't use single forged address (althought BigBoss used just one: big(at)boss.com) They either choose random adresses from a victim's address book, or create a brand new, like fed343fd(at)example.com, where the domain is also random. How do you imagine filtering them???


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On the value of virus notifications

Posted Aug 28, 2003 14:19 UTC (Thu) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link]

Simple, you recognize which worm it is and you know what it does. That's how virus filters work, they have pattern with which to recognize specific worms.

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