Here comes the flood/end of the pattern file
David Perry Trend Micro
Recent reports list 2007 as the year of the greatest number of tracked threats in history. Vendors report increases of up
to 5,000 new actual malware samples per day! Some botnets are replaced in the wild every couple of minutes. Does this
mean that the pattern file will soon go the way of the passenger pigeon? What alternative technologies are announced
by the industry to supplant the pattern file? Will this general trend continue into the future?
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David Perry in an examination of the malware population explosion, and what it means to us on the front lines.
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