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Re: Virtual Machine Trojans: a new type of threat?
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:01:55 +0200 (CEST)
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 sergio () infosegura net wrote:
The attacker has root access, and can craft the trojan any form s/he wants. I don't see how the AV would detect this type of custom-made trojan.
You do not need "root access" or a virtual machine to craft a custom-made trojan. This means we can simplify the question as follows: Can antivirus prevent an arbitrary piece of malicious code from entering the network? And the answer is simple: No, it cannot. Stop fastening screws with a hammer. It has never worked. -- Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak / Jeremiah 9:21 \ "For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21th century edition / _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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