Owning Anti-Virus: Weaknesses In A Critical Security Component

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Presented at Blackhat USA 2005 by

Neel Mehta

AV software is becoming extremely popular because of the its percieved protection. Even the average person is aware they want AV on their computer (see AOL, Netscape, Netzero, Earthlink, and other ISP television ads). What if: Instead of protecting ppl from hackers AV software was actually making it easier for hackers?