Re: Trojan horse bypassing any firewall and antivirus SW

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2006-10-10 itsec.info wrote:
> There are always a lot of discussions how Skype calls can be
> wiretapped.
>
> I read about a security company which claimed that they have a product
> ready which allows to install a Trojan horse through the Internet to
> any specific PC in a way that no firewall or virus protection SW is
> able to prevent to.
>
> Then this Trojan horse is able to file every calls and send it to a
> bureau of investigation.
>
> Well if the Trojan horse is installed almost everything is possible
> but is it nowadays really possible to install such a piece of SW to
> any arbitray PC without being blocked by any firewall or deteced by
> any antivirus SW?

No.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches
becoming available."
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