Flaws in anti-virus programs
It is my contention that typical anti-virus products leave a lot to be desired. A ZDNet post, Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products, doesn’t improve my opinion:
In what appears to be either a common scenario of “when the security solution ends up the security problem itself”, or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in competing antivirus products, the IT/Security consulting firm n.runs AG claims to have discovered approximately 800 vulnerabilities within antivirus products based on exploiting a standard malware scanning process known as “parsing” .
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