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Anti virus software just guessing what is and isn’t malware by analysing static calls is actually really annoying. If you’re doing that then why not just make an allow list of trusted software and mark any software not in that list as being malware. It’ll work just about the same.


That's pretty much exactly how it works now. We instead analyze programs and guess that they're safe.

Well, after we send a copy of the program to Microsoft, of course




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