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1:01:25
edgar-rft
master quiz question: tell a computer language that has never being used for writing malware
1:08:23
dash[m]
let's theorize a category of software called "goodware" that always does what the user wants
1:09:23
aeth
a lisp would be really hard to decompile because you might get the source, but you don't get the macros that generated that source
1:37:44
jcowan
moon-child: It is indeed easier and quicker, which is important in the mal-adware business.
6:33:01
pjb
moon-child: not really. run-time antiviruses just look at the accesses (they trap some syscall, etc). They don't care how the program does it, just what it does. static antiviruses would have it just as easy analysing the source than the binary. The only thing is that perhaps they don't bother analysing the sources, notably of "scripting" languages that need to be executed to determine 100% of the semantic.