Anti-malware Tools as Glorified Grep
By Daniel Miessler on May 18th, 2008: Tagged as Humor | Information Security
- Anti-virus
- Anti-spyware
- Anti-rootkit
- IDS
- IPS
- Deep Packet Inspection
What do all these things do?
- Find something
- Do something with it
…kind of like…
find / | grep mal | xargs rm -rf
or…
find / | grep mal | xargs ls -lah
Ah, but they see different protocols and have GUIs with options for HOW to search and HOW to delete or show the malware. And a management console. And someone to go to for training. And someone to complain to when they don’t work. And a price-tag.
Meh.
Glorified Grep.
Meh, stupid post. Everything can be abstracted out to a point of equality. Brain surgeons work in support; that doesn’t mean they aren’t valuable.:
