As far as I’m concerned, anti-virus systems are as good as dead. Or, if they aren’t just yet, they’re certainly headed that way. Signature-based analysis, both static (e.g. SHA1 hash) and heuristic (e.g. pattern matching) is useless against polymorphic malware, which is becoming a big concern when you consider how easy it is to write… Read More The anti-virus age is over.