full-disclosure - Re: Keylogger

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Message-id: <45598E8E.27157.4BEA272C@nick.virus-l.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:38:22 +1300
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Keylogger

Colin Copley wrote:

> Agreed, but AV covers all sorts of malware these days.
> This would give a little indication of the type of protection AV vendors can
> provide against custom/targetted malware attacks, even if it's none it still
> shows where improvements can be made, or other defenses need to pick up the
> slack.

If your users can run arbitrary .EXEs Emailed to them you have much 
bigger problems than the failings in your understanding of the common 
of infelicities of run-of-the-mill, scanning-based antivirus 
software...

-- 
Nick FitzGerald
Computer Virus Consulting Ltd.
Ph/FAX: +64 3 3267092

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