how to seek careers in anti virus companies?

[veejnas]

Hi everyone,

just a prospective understanding,wat do professional antivirus companies look for when they hire techies,all we do is just run appropriate antivirus softwares and get rid of the problem(most of us i.e.),wat do u have to know to apply? how good should one be?

ps: just want to know wat u guys have to say.....

[Odie]

I would think that you should be almost as good as the guys who actually code the virus. If you are better than them you will soon be without a job.

[veejnas]

yeah thats true....is it possible to code virus which destroy the hardware? i mean...has there been any record of such?

[Odie]

I would say in general no. Code can only manipulate, change, destroy, etc. other code. I have, however, heard that if the firmware on my USB modem is destroyed or changed, it would be useless.

[brayden]

we used to have a computer that got a virus and it killed the computer and in those days there wasn't any rescue discs so it became unusable. I don't think we had proper anti-virus

[Raymond]

You must know how to decompile virus which will tell you how the virus work. Then you must know how to code the fix.

[shan]

i think u have to an allround computrist. you should know about networking as for the firewalls and grapics designing for the creation of the interface and programming as u need to decode the virus and also know a bit of hardware as most softwares are not compadiable with somehard ware.

[Ceyfer √]

u need to have a good background on these areas:

-->Computer Viruses - Theory and Experiments

-->Information Security

-->Computer security

-->Computer Virology

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Some companies have volunteers - like me when I found a malware inside my system I sent the sample to their labs for better malware analysis.

Some volunteers even sent trojan samples from UD sites, Most AV's now have integrated sample stats ( information security sharing ) and automatically sent the malware sample detected on ur pc to their labs



"The virus problem will be with us for ever" Alan Solomon


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