Application whitelisting

2007-11-01

Gabor Szappanos

VirusBuster, Hungary

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

'Whitelisting is currently nothing more than (admittedly careful and extensive) inverted blacklisting by AV software.' Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster.

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