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Re: compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:40:21 -0600
On Feb 5, 2008 12:32 AM, Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro) <> wrote:
Ahem. Have we gone back to using 20 Mb hard disks ? :) * "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." (Knuth, Donald. Structured Programming with go to Statements, ACM Journal Computing Surveys, Vol 6, No. 4, Dec. 1974. p.268.) I think that going from 16Mb to 6.5 Mb (while an interesting reduction in size), doesn't make much sense. Even if people thinks about having nmap on an U3 drive - I just bought a 4Gb one for less than $30. And there's a good reason NOT to do it, IMHO - AVs get antsy now and then, and start flagging everything, good or bad, that has gone thru UPX and derivatives as "suspicious". The garden variety nmap user would probably ignore the alarm - knowing or suspecting it has been UPX-or-similar compressed. But God forbids the AV (as TrendMicro used to do) has a "run weekly, erase suspected" job pre-configured. Happened to me once. I mean - Fyodor's call. But I see it as bringing more headaches than real benefits. Unless, of course, we consider those poor souls still accessing the Internet over 2400Bps modems . . . ;) Dario
I was thinking about folks building forensic bootable CDs (à la Helix) and trying to cram as much as possible on one disk, but I totally forgot about some AV considering upx "unwanted." I actually had that problem with an IDS, too, so I should have thought of that. Note: For anyone accessing the Internet over 2400Bps, elinks does a pretty good job rendering Gmail in text mode. Also, you have my condolences. -Jason _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx DePriest, Jason R. (Feb 04)
- RE: compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro) (Feb 04)
- Re: compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx Guilherme Polo (Feb 05)
- Re: compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx DePriest, Jason R. (Feb 05)
- Re: compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx AgentSmith15 (Feb 05)
- RE: compressing nmap executables and dlls with upx Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro) (Feb 04)