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Exploit Shield

An exploit (from the same word in the French language, meaning “achievement”, or “accomplishment”) is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic (usually computerized). This frequently includes such things as violently gaining control of a computer system or allowing privilege escalation or a denial of service attack. (Wikipedia)

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Should I Trust You?

I think that everyone has heard of the recent “hacking series” against major antivirus companies. After the recent SQL injections in Kaspersky, BitDefender (here and here) and F-Secure the regular user might wonder in which company should they still trust.

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The future of AV, or not?

Recently I read an article in the (IN)SECURE Magazine 19 entitled The Future Of AV: looking for the good while stopping the bad. After my opinion there should be more to be said about it, based on the article.
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