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Date: Tue Dec 13 18:31:20 2005 From: tewner at jct.ac.il (Michael Tewner) Subject: Inside AV engines? Check The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense (Paperback) by Peter Szor. It is one of the foremost books in Virus detection, etc, and I found it to be a valuable read... Examples are in C code, and there's a lot of memory dumping, etc. Check slashdot's review if you want. Jeroen wrote: > For penetration testing on Wintel system, I often use netcat.exe and stuff > like pwdump. More and more I need to disable anti-virus services before > running the tools to avoid alarms and auto-deletion of the applications. It > works but it isn't an ideal situation since theoretically a network can be > infected while the AV-services are down. Recompiling tools is an option > since the source of many tools I use is available. The question is (before I > burn useless CPU cycles): can someone help me getting info about the inside > of AV engines? Will addition of some rubbish to the code do the trick (-> > other checksum), do I need to change some core code or is it a mission > impossible anyway? Who can help for example getting some useful research > papers on the subject of detecting viruses and how to bypass mechanisms > used? Any help will be appreciated. > > > Greets, > > Jeroen > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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