Death of antivirus software imminent

[Peter Gutmann]

"Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold at emc.com> writes:

>The claim that VMM's provide high level security is trading on the reputation
>of work done (and published) years ago which has little if anything to do with
>the software actually being run.

Actually VMMs do provide some security, but not in the way you think.  Since
malware researchers typically run malware they're analysing inside a VM, quite
a bit of malware will silently exit (or at least not exercise the "mal" part
of its name) if it detects that it's running inside a VM.  So you can
inoculate yourself against at least some malware by running your OS inside a
VM.

Peter.

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