Anti-virus software do a poor job of detecting exploits
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Independent testing firm NSS Labs has reported that major commercial anti-virus products do a poor job of detecting the client side exploits used to attack vulnerabilities in Web browsers, Adobe Flash, Reader, and Apple QuickTime. Roughly half of the exploits tested were exact copies of the first exploit code to be made public against the vulnerability on a government funded web site for months, NSS Labs reports. The other half of those exploits were modified, they used different entry points in the targeted system's memory. More...
