Re: Re: Help put a stop to incompetent computer forensics

[Jason Coombs <jasonc () science org>]

Donald J. Ankney wrote:
> Your definition is just a subset of the standard, broader one. 

When a word causes widespread misunderstanding such that you simply 
can't use it to communicate ideas clearly, the old meaning becomes 
archaic. I think that's what has happened with Trojan. Proof of this can 
be found in the list of malware that anti-Trojan software is designed to 
detect -- without double-checking this, just from memory, I'm going to 
say that the list of malware detected by the typical anti-Trojan 
software product is limited to malware that meets my definition and does 
not include the broader definition. That causes a real problem, in 
practice, since if the anti-Trojan doesn't stop spyware then how can 
spyware be a Trojan?

Regards,

Jason Coombs
jasonc () science org
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