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Aycock Malware Round-Up

I came across a great post by Kurt Wismer this morning over at his Anti-Virus Rants blog: it's a timely and interesting response to all the brouhaha surrounding academic malware. Now, he and I don't entirely agree on this topic (I won't go through it all again since we did over a thousand words on it last week), but Kurt argues the other side of this issue extremely well; I highly recommend it as a must-read counterbalance for folks wishing to understand the issue. Anyway, definitely worth checking out.

Other resources I'd recommend for folks wishing to understand the issue in depth are Tony Sampson's take on M/C Journal as well as John Aycock's publications that are relevant (though tangential) to the topic - for example, his views on creating a "safe" AV testing facility...