Reply to post: Re: "without ever getting saved to the file system first"

Meet the Great Duke of... DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware

jake Silver badge

Re: "without ever getting saved to the file system first"

"but in ways it's less easy for an AV to spot them"

I would think that so-called "safe code" loading executable code drawn across the network would raise all kinds of flags in your anti-malware snakeoil of choice.

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