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Comment author: gwern 03 May 2011 11:17:04PM 2 points [-]

knowing the specific vulnerabilities ClamAV protects against can tell you what you can take advantage of.

In this vein, you can do even better with binary updates for vulnerabilities (such as Windows Update). They can be automatically rewritten into exploits: "Automatic Patch-Based Exploit Generation" (LtU).