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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 6:56 pm    Post subject: Online virus scanners buggy Reply with quote

Online scanners from Symantec, McAfee and Panda all contain buffer overflows. One researcher claims an attacker could execute arbitrary code, another just that they could crash the browser. Panda reports their software has been fixed, while Symantec and McAfee flaws may be overexagerated reports.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1562993,00.asp
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

so if a person write a virus that executes a 700,000+ character execution. they could hide them selfs from the on-line scanner.
sounds too clumsy to work effectively.

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