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Source: eWeek - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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The recent surge in malware attacks against zero-day flaws in some of the most widely used software packages is confirmation of an IT administrator's worst nightmare: Stand-alone, signature-based anti-virus software offers no protection from sophisticated online criminals.During 2006, there was a wave of zero-day attacks against Microsoft Office applications—through vulnerabilities known only to the attackers—that bypassed all anti-virus protection at the network and desktop level. Because traditional anti-virus technology depends on the ability to quickly capture malware samples, reverse the code for the specific characteristics, and then write and release detection signatures, the zero-day attack presents a major dilemma.
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