Re: Re: WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification

["dudevanwinkle () gmail com" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

Gadi Evron wrote:

> Your description is just not fun.
>
> On 1/3/06, Pierre Vandevenne <pierre () datarescue com> wrote:
>  
>
> > Good Day,
> >
> > Tuesday, January 3, 2006, 12:59:22 PM, you wrote:
> >
> > GE>> The "patch" by Ilfak Guilfanov works, but by disabling a DLL in
> > Windows.
> > PV>> I wouldn't say it does that. If you really want to simplify it in the
> > LS> extreme, it hides the vulnerable function.
> >
> > LS> Think of it as a "White Hat Rootkit"
> >
> > Or merely a TSR hooking an interrupt vector. It doesn't hide itself.
> > It doesn't allow any kind of remote access to anything.
> >
> > I can't see how it could even be remotely described as a rootkit.
> >
> >    

Yeah Pierre, what are you trying to do, turn this into FunSuck? ;-)

-JP


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