We know now for certain signature- or pattern-based detection had its best days, and is a thing of the past know, only malware behavioral detection is promising a way forward for AV detection. The results of test with obfuscated old malware fed to modern AV engines showed dramatically bad results http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11531/1
The Race to Zero contest showed that even old viruses can get by the latest antivirus engines if they are dressed in the right bits.
Yes that is right, but it demonstrates that the old av engine concept is obsolete, archaic, outlived, not doing much only protects lightly. Does Avast have behavioral virus detection? This also could reduce FP’s enormously.
No, it just demonstrates the stupidity of the people behind Race to Zero. It’s like evaluating what to happen if we dip different things in gasoline and then light the match.
I mean that everybody in the industry knows that, it’s just lost time to “prove” it. Those people wrote new malware, now they’re in the same league as the chinese gangs behind the botnets and so.