AntiVirus Products Fail to Find Simple IE Malware

Didier Stevens recently took a closer look at some Internet Explorer malware that he had uncovered and found that most antivirus products that it was tested against failed to identify the malware through one of the most basic and straight forward obfuscation techniques — the null-byte. With enough null-bytes between each character of code, it is possible to fool all antivirus products (though additional software will trap it), yet Internet Explorer was quite happy to render the code. Both the antivirus / anti-malware companies and Microsoft’s IE team have something to answer for — via Slashdot