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    SubjectRe: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning
    On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, David Wagner wrote:

    > As I recall, the basic stats looked like this: about 30% of zero-day
    > malware samples
    > were detected on the first day they were released (and 70% weren't).
    > The median number of days until a new malware sample was detected was
    > about 40 days. If you wanted hundreds of days, asymptotically McAfee was
    > able to detect about 70% of the samples (and 30% were never detected).
    > I expect the situation to get worse in the future, not better.

    This is similar to the stats published by AusCert a couple of years back
    where they claimed that AV software failed to detect 80% of new malware:

    <http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Eighty-percent-of-new-malware-defeats-antivirus/0,130061744,139263949,00.htm>

    Interestingly, AusCert still describe up-to-date anti-virus software as
    being "essential", per http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=6891

    In any case, the above relates to Windows desktops -- we are yet to see
    a rationale for adding AV support to the Linux kernel.


    - James
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    James Morris
    <jmorris@namei.org>


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