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Do we actually need so many security programs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 775231" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>A few words about the idea of many security programs and script blocking. </p><p>I did some tests to show, that generally, AV vendors did not solve the malicious scripts problem. So, it would be reasonable for the home user to block the script execution by the external tool or by the reg tweak. Script interpreters can be also renamed, but that can be reverted by the system, for example, after a major update.</p><p></p><p>I used very simple and very special scripts, so from the fact that particular AV blocked all my samples does not follow that it has got a great anti-script protection. In fact, all my samples could be blocked just by the proper firewall rules. The opposite reasoning can be more sound, because if the AV cannot mitigate such simple scripts (commonly used in the wild), then it has not got a great anti-script protection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 775231, member: 32260"] A few words about the idea of many security programs and script blocking. I did some tests to show, that generally, AV vendors did not solve the malicious scripts problem. So, it would be reasonable for the home user to block the script execution by the external tool or by the reg tweak. Script interpreters can be also renamed, but that can be reverted by the system, for example, after a major update. I used very simple and very special scripts, so from the fact that particular AV blocked all my samples does not follow that it has got a great anti-script protection. In fact, all my samples could be blocked just by the proper firewall rules. The opposite reasoning can be more sound, because if the AV cannot mitigate such simple scripts (commonly used in the wild), then it has not got a great anti-script protection. [/QUOTE]
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