full-disclosure - Useless tidbit (MS AntiSpyware)

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Date: Wed May 11 12:04:59 2005
From: randallm at fidmail.com (Randall M)
Subject: Useless tidbit (MS AntiSpyware)

:-----Original Message-----
:From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk 
:[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf 
:Of Nick FitzGerald
:Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:17 PM
:To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
:Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Useless tidbit (MS AntiSpyware)
:
:
:_THAT_ is a far larger problem you should have considered long 
:before you discovered that one (or more) of the many 
:"band-aid" programs (like MS AntiSpyware, most other 
:anti-spywares, known virus scanning "antivirus" programs, 
:software firewalls, and so on) so commonly advocated by lame 
:(or hamstrung) system admins has this (and dozens of
:other) trivial, stupid holes.
:
:
:Regards,
:
:Nick FitzGerald
:

Nick,
Would you please elaborate futhur on this? I read it to say we should have
cleaned out the machines first by hand and we are lame or hamstrug for
relying on anti-virus, anti-spyware programs to find them. 

RandallM