Antivirus joins firewalls in the hall of security technology from another time

Put simply, a crypting service takes a bad guy’s piece of malware and scans it against all of the available antivirus tools on the market today — to see how many of them detect the code as malicious. The service then runs some custom encryption routines to obfuscate the malware so that it hardly resembles the piece of code that was detected as bad by most of the tools out there. And it repeats this scanning and crypting process in an iterative fashion until the malware is found to be completely undetectable by all of the antivirus tools on the market.

amazingly honest given how terrible “anti virus” software is.

Panda users had a bad hair day on Wednesday, after the Spanish security software firm released an update that classified components of its own technology as malign. As a result, enterprise PCs running the antivirus software tied themselves in something of a knot, leaving some systems either unstable or unable to access the internet.

err, no. “anti virus” has been snake oil since forever.

There was kind of an unspoken rule not to attack the security industry. But now they are ruining the last island of safety for all these organizations and companies, which is very alarming for us