Antivirus Suites Struggle to Block Exploit-based Attacks

JMH · Aug 19, 2012

Many antivirus suites are incapable of effectively blocking malware attacks against two recent and serious Microsoft vulnerabilities despite the fact that real exploits have been circulating since June, testing organization NSS Labs has found.

The firm looked at the ability of 13 antivirus suites to defend unpatched systems against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's XML Core Services (CVE-2012-1889) and in Internet Explorer 8.0 (CVE-2012-1875), both made public in June.

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Antivirus Suites Struggle to Block Exploit-based Attacks

JMH

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