Comments on: The commercial HTML packer dilemma http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/the-commercial-html-packer-dilemma Sat, 12 May 2012 04:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dietrich Kappe http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/the-commercial-html-packer-dilemma/comment-page-1#comment-17021 Dietrich Kappe Thu, 15 May 2008 01:00:09 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=651#comment-17021 Err....signing scripts anyone? (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-scripts.html) Just like open, unencrypted email, the right technology solution won't be adopted until the pain gets unacceptably high. Err….signing scripts anyone? (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-scripts.html) Just like open, unencrypted email, the right technology solution won’t be adopted until the pain gets unacceptably high.

]]> By: Martin http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/the-commercial-html-packer-dilemma/comment-page-1#comment-17020 Martin Thu, 15 May 2008 00:07:55 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=651#comment-17020 Thanks Patrick for this interesting post. You made my rss-reader and antivirus program start a fascinating battle :). I really appreciate the Javascript debugging links. Speaking from a web-publishers perspective, javascript obfuscation still has its advantages. But regarding the current threats, wouldn't it be a more promising approach, if antivirus software were able to hook into the actual javascript processing and block the execution of malicious js code? Thanks Patrick for this interesting post. You made my rss-reader and antivirus program start a fascinating battle :) .

I really appreciate the Javascript debugging links. Speaking from a web-publishers perspective, javascript obfuscation still has its advantages.

But regarding the current threats, wouldn’t it be a more promising approach, if antivirus software were able to hook into the actual javascript processing and block the execution of malicious js code?

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