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Re: Overloading AV software, was Question about Viruses
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:01:05 -0400
On 7/7/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () bsf-llc com> wrote:
>>> But for the most part massimo is right, it's a dumb strategy Hmm, what if the bad guys overloaded a user with virus warning messages as a stratergy to get people to turn off their AV software. For example, could a Web page download a few hundred image files with known virus signatures tacked on the end of each file in order to make AV software go nuts? Could the same trick be used in an HTML email message? I already have an HTML application that is triggering false positives in Symantec because Symantec thinks a bit of VBScript code I wrote is a malicious code.
Thats what you get for using symantec ;-) If you want to stop this, just cut and paste half of the .vbs code into two different txt files and then scan copies of each to see which one is detected, then repeat this with a copy of the txt file that was identified as a virus until you get to the smallest bit of code that is still "detected" as a virus. Change the code and voila', no more virus :-) -JP _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Question about Viruses, (continued)
- Re: Question about Viruses Peter Kosinar (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Drsolly (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Peter Kosinar (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Peter Kosinar (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Drsolly (Jul 07)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Jul 08)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Peter Kosinar (Jul 08)
- Re: Re: Question about Viruses Drsolly (Jul 08)
- Re: Overloading AV software, was Question about Viruses Drsolly (Jul 07)
- Re: Overloading AV software, was Question about Viruses Dude VanWinkle (Jul 07)
- RE: Overloading AV software, was Question about Viruses Peter Kosinar (Jul 07)
- Re: Overloading AV software, was Question about Viruses Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 07)
- RE: Overloading AV software, try #2 Richard M. Smith (Jul 07)
- Re: Overloading AV software, try #2 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 07)
- RE: Overloading AV software, try #2 Richard M. Smith (Jul 07)
- Re: Overloading AV software, try #2 Dude VanWinkle (Jul 07)
- RE: Overloading AV software, try #2 Drsolly (Jul 07)
- Re: Overloading AV software, try #2 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 07)
- Re: Overloading AV software, try #2 Dude VanWinkle (Jul 07)
- Re: Overloading AV software, try #2 Peter Kosinar (Jul 07)