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Years ago, my mom got an email with an attachment that contained a MyDoom email worm. She opened the attachment, ran the MyDoom worm, and infected her computer. Two days later, her antivirus software recieved its weekly definition update, and finally recognized the MyDoom worm she'd opened. Too late.

In recent years I've hunted malware in the real world, and uploaded thousands of malware files to VirusTotal for analysis by about 30 types of security software, probably including the one you're using right now. The detection rates can be quite low on the malware that actually matters RIGHT NOW, the malware the bad guys are constantly regenerating to keep ahead of the antivirus vendors and keep infecting computers. I recognized a need to educate people that antivirus is not an ironclad defense by itself.

So you may have noticed that the forum turned blue. I have finished upgrading the forums to the latest version, and am in the process of re-integrating them back into the main site.

You can visit the forum at its usual URL:

http://www.antisource.com/forums/index.php
  

Recently a client of mine and I had a long winded debate about the dangers of not protecting machines from spyware and other malware. The client swore up and down that since they had an authenticating proxy that required the windows cached credentials to access the internet that they were protected. They believed that the proxy prevented the spyware and other malware from being able to phone data home as the spyware would not have access to the cache credentials to access the internet.   Read more...