Malware that even an anti virus provider cant deal with

[barbos]

Actually it does have such perception, OS tells it time.
But it does not really need that, it can simply wait for 2 months of ON time or 100 Power_Cycle_Counts Then infect your OS and then switch off completely by flashing itself an original and legitimate firmware That way nobody will find a trace, unless of course you were specifically waiting for virus act up.

And where does the OS tell the HD the time???

Don't know, but I have a hard drive which reports absolute time of some minor malfunction.
In any case as I said it is pretty irrelevant.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

And where does the OS tell the HD the time???

Don't know, but I have a hard drive which reports absolute time of some minor malfunction.
In any case as I said it is pretty irrelevant.

The hard drive reports it or the logging function of the OS reports it?

 

[barbos]

Don't know, but I have a hard drive which reports absolute time of some minor malfunction.
In any case as I said it is pretty irrelevant.

The hard drive reports it or the logging function of the OS reports it?

not logging, hard drive itself via SMART. Not exact time, just a date.
Oh, wait, I just checked it's based on ON time.
So never mind

 

[Draconis]

I've had lots of malware get past a variety of anti-virus software. There's nothing that can stop everything.

 

[barbos]

I've had lots of malware get past a variety of anti-virus software. There's nothing that can stop everything.

Well, problem is windows, not anti-virus software. If MS really wanted they would have made it more difficult for malware to spread.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I've had lots of malware get past a variety of anti-virus software. There's nothing that can stop everything.

The new stuff sometimes gets past. The old stuff has a basically 100% detection rate--and what we are talking about would be old stuff.