Vulnerabilities in AntiVirus engines-is F-Secure safe?

Blackcat
Blackcat Posts: 503 Influencer

Interesting read here on the vulnerabilities and exploitations of AV engines; https://twitter.com/matalaz/status/451934665830436864

 

Many AV engines have weaknesses, including F-Secure. Should users be concerned?

 

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Comments

  • Blackcat
    Blackcat Posts: 503 Influencer

    Problems seem to be with the BitDefender engine;

     

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    Recommendations for AV users;

     

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  • Simon
    Simon Posts: 2,667 Superuser

    I would perhaps question the merits of an article where the writer can't spell Finland (Finnland?).  To be honest, it looks like a little bit of a scare story to me.  dunno.gif

  • Blackcat
    Blackcat Posts: 503 Influencer

    A little unfair , Simon.

     

    Joxean Koret, who gave this presentation, is Basque so English may not be his strongest language.

     

    Further, he is a well-respected security researcher;  http://syscanblog.blogspot.co.uk/

     

    "Speakers who have presented in previous SyScan conferences are among the best and brightest in their respective field".

     

     

  • Simon
    Simon Posts: 2,667 Superuser

    OK.  I've not heard of the guy, to be honest, but fair comment.

  • Not to feel to bad, Simon, as I thought the same thing as you, who is this guy who comes out of the woodwork and pronounces all these shortcoming or exploits of security vendors software (esp. BD) let alone on a twitter account link. I'm not trying to pile on Blackcat, as I appreciate your contributions here, complete with photos and links to back yourself up, giving your post excellent merit, so kudos to you :)

     

    I guess we're all so used to hearing of such things from the bigger names we all know, i.e. AV-Comparatives, which in this case had a nice commissioned firewall study that showed Windows firewall very competent against Public network attacks. This hopefully gives us reassurance in that regard, that Windows firewall together with F-Secure and DeepGuard may be ok after all Smiley Wink  http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/avc_fw_201403_en.pdf

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