Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses

Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-06-13

Software attack tools that turn PCs into remotely controlled zombies are getting better, but defenses are not keeping up, say security experts.

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Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-14
Anonymous (1 replies)

What you need is a good HIDS, e.g. ASE 2005-06-22
Mike (2 replies)

It is practically impossible to block a _trojan_ in real time, since it is only a program like any other, it is not spreading like a virus. Rather, generic host based intrusion detection systems like e.g. "All-Seeing Eye" (http://www.fortego.com/ase) is the thing of the future I think. If those Israel and UK companies would have been running ASE, they would have gotten a lot of red flags the second that trojan entered the system, and would have been able to analyze, remove and submit that trojan to the AV companies, so that _they_ then would be able to block it in real time for everyone else.

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Re: What you need is a good HIDS, e.g. ASE 2005-06-24
Anonymous

Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-14
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Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-15
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Re: Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-06-21
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Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-10-15
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Stealthy Trojan horses, modular bot software dodging defenses 2005-09-01
Anonymous

So, don't run as administrator on WIndows 2005-11-04
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: So, don't run as administrator on WIndows 2006-07-12
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