Re: kaspersky did not detect autorun virus but nod32 did!!

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m0d join:2005-03-02 ireland edit: March 21st, @01:41AM	reply to wajdi gary Re: kaspersky did not detect autorun virus but nod32 did!! And after 2 years of promising myself I would do it .. I have a 6GB VM of my main dev environment... 1) no more hardware failures that cost me dev time 2) I wont care what AV misses what (rare concern for me) 3) up and running in minutes on totally different hardware.. 4) not just "backed up" but ready to "hit the ground running". No one AV catches all or could be realistically expected to either .. that is a "marketing myth" .. "buy this product and your good for life".. they would like to sell it that way .. in practice it does not work. Virtualisation is the future .. for development at least .. not so much maybe for malware testing.. unless its a custom VM and TOTALLY undetectable to the malware Back to topic.. I really don't think people should measure AVs in terms of 0-day.. Its a turkey shoot .. one will win one week .. another next .. it does not mean all are not totally compent and add some safe hex and you are fine. Personally what I cant stand is when the "solution" / "protection" is worse than the "problem". Some AVs and or firewalls just do not behave well .. and better they were not so widely known... That is the power of marketing for you. That also creates the fanboi problem. As a dev I must always REMIND myself .. the customer is NOT MAD .. there is a reason for this (however rare) and well its DOWN TO ME .. to RECREATE his issue.. NOT down to him to like PROVE to me.. there is a problem .. So yeah .. take care .. no AV/Firewall is bullet proof. My words of advice to ALL vendors would be: 1) The customer is ALWAYS right.. the "perceived problem" is probably re-creatable.. if you put enough time into it. 2) We do not expect "perfection" .. but hmm fire your Marketing Dept.. 3) Everything is a work in progress .. and what was true yesterday is not necessarily true today. But when your caught out? You gain more respect for admitting that. This was a "vendor independent" post
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Bubba1 Less is More Premium join:2006-09-21	said by m0d : Virtualisation is the future .. VMWare? .. not to change the subject.
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