New approaches to virus protection
For example, on Monday anti-virus vendors sounded a false alarm saying that a file belonging to AutoCAD, AcSignApply.exe contained mailware; If Avira, Kaspersky, F-Secure and other anti-virus vendors had queried the NIST database beforehand they would have known that the NIST lists the AcSignApply.exe file as a known AutoCAD file with an MD5 hash value of 5A3DA649CBBB4502559AA24972E0F302. While this is no automatic guarantee that the file doesn't include some sort of back door, it would at least have allowed the vendors to avoid a false alarm apparently based on very weak evidence.
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