Comments on: Malware Is Their Business…and Business Is Good!

By: Dave Marcus

Dave Marcus — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:03:57 +0000

mainly unique hashes (which includes as properties much of what you stated in your comment) normailizing out duplicates and so on…..

By: david

david — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:10:49 +0000

I second Matthew’s questions.

By: Cedric Pernet

Cedric Pernet — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:08:58 +0000

Thank you for these interesting statistics. And btw, nice also to see there are Megadeth fans out there…

By: Mike DS

Mike DS — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:51:12 +0000

I think someone should create vaccines with a “virus like mobility”, even if it means that my computer will become a battle field. Those vaccine agents may change the graphics. It would make the security programs shift from defensive-passive to a lot more aggressive and more interesting field.

By: Matthew Wollenweber

Matthew Wollenweber — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:31:06 +0000

I’m curious as to what your methodology is to distinguish a malware sample as unique? Are we talking a different hash of the binary, unique bot builds, unique bots?