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Quote:Anti-virus software has always lived with the tradeoff of performance versus thoroughness. It's led to some software design decisions on the methods of how files are actually scanned that are now coming home to roost.

Recently, researcher Andrey Bayora revealed that it is possible to fool the scanners into thinking that a file under scan is one kind, when it is in actuality something entirely different. Bayora (of www.securityelf.org), a Russian-born Israeli, has issued an advisory that details how to bypass many popular Windows AV programs.

Bayora says that he told vendors in July about what he found. He also says that none of them ever got back to him...

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