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by yabun 3959 days ago
A lot of new malware is self-modifying. In situations where this is the case checksums lose most if not all of their value. Heuristics in such situations are really the only viable option.
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No, I mean to know what is clean.
OK, but that's a very large data set that to track - does AV software actually do that?