Re: Our Own Worst Enemy?

[Jean-Marc Desperrier <jean-marc.desperrier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ilan Shacham wrote:

> Perhaps my wording wasn't very good - what I meant was that if we
> assume the list virus scanner is updated, most likely any virus
> that passes it will also pass those on subscriber's organizations
> virus scanners, and will therefore not fill up the list with
> warnings from each of them, which is what Tony was pondering about.

That makes me think about something.

Imagine I'm an evil hacker and want to introduce a new virus into a company
that uses one of this anti-virus.

I just begin by sending some old virus that I know will be recognised and
supressed.

This enables me to get the response email from the anti-virus that tells me
which anti-virus the company uses and what version.

I just have to design a new virus that I test beforehand to be sure that
version of this anti-virus will not be able to detect it and  this is it !

This robots should just stop sending this emails.