full-disclosure - Re: The Mystery of the Duqu Framework

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Message-ID: <4F5C3F52.60907@systeminplace.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:59:46 -0600
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@...teminplace.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: The Mystery of the Duqu Framework

On 3/10/2012 10:04 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:16:26 CST, William Pitcock said:
>    
>> If it looks like COM, smells like COM, and acts like COM, then it's
>> probably COM.  It certainly isn't "some new programming language" like
>> Kaspersky says.  That's just the dumbest thing I've heard this year.
>>      
> So what you're saying here is that there's a lot of people accepting
> security advice and/or software from professionals who wouldn't recognize
> a COM object if it came up and bit them on the butt...
>
>    
Either that or it's intentional misinformation.  Whichever is worse is 
for the users of Kaspersky products to decide, I suppose.

William

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