Comments on: Could Cross Platform be used as a means of redundancy? http://www.gfi.com/blog/could-cross-platform-be-used-as-a-means-of-redundancy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=could-cross-platform-be-used-as-a-means-of-redundancy Brought to you by GFI Software Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Emmanuel Carabott http://www.gfi.com/blog/could-cross-platform-be-used-as-a-means-of-redundancy/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Emmanuel Carabott Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:54:21 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=1347#comment-285 Thanks John, thats really very interesting, I have to admit I didn’t know about this concept virus, will check it out as its very interesting. Unfortunately this article doesn’t really give much details about the virus and its inner workings.. however it seems that this proof of concept can infect binaries of both systems but it doesn’t say if it can run system independently which i cant really think of a way how to achieve.

In any case obviously you’re right, there is no sure 100% way to mitigate all risk factors. There is a certain level of security you can achieve cost effectively then anything above that involves very high cost, generally drastic measures and mitigates a small amount of risk. Cross Platform setup might be one such option perhaps.

]]> By: John Mello http://www.gfi.com/blog/could-cross-platform-be-used-as-a-means-of-redundancy/comment-page-1/#comment-283 John Mello Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:19:02 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=1347#comment-283 While using cross-platform networks to counter malware infections sounds like an interesting idea, it isn’t one that has escaped the radar of the Black Hats. As long ago as 2006, researchers discovered proof of concept viruses aimed at infecting multiple platforms. They found a concept virus written in Assembly language designed to infect both ELF (Linux) and PE (Windows) files. (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/CrossPlatform-Sample-Virus-Targets-Windows-Linux/) This is just more evidence of how difficult it is to keep one step ahead of malware community.

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