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Message-ID: <439F142B.5080608@jct.ac.il>
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
> 
> 
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