[GLLUG] Analysis of viruses on commercial operating systems

Barry Tigner tigner at msu.edu
Mon Sep 19 09:12:41 EDT 2011


You can get a lot of information from the governments 
national vulnerability database ....

http://nvd.nist.gov/

You can do searches by platform, OS, dates, etc.

Barry




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On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 22:34 -0400, Taylor Burke wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, but I found one that'll work fine for now (
> http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis?pubid=204792070 ).
> 
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
> > On 09/17/2011 06:42 PM, Taylor Burke wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey guys,
> >>
> >> Do any of you have any papers, presentations, or something along those
> >> lines detailing the amounts of viruses that exist for commercial OSes?
> >> I'm talking BSD, UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Mac, of course. It's for a
> >> class paper, so if any of you have any idea where I could find that
> >> information, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> >
> > Arbor Networks frequently releases papers with surveys of malware, you might
> > try tooling around their website (www.arbornetworks.com), especially the
> > technical blogs. Full disclosure: they're my bread and butter.  These
> > reports will generally be focused on DDoS and similar threats, because
> > that's what they do.
> >
> > Most of the major anti-virus providers also release such surveys.  Kaspersky
> > in particular releases an annual survey, and Symantec may.
> >
> > Clay
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