, SecurityFocus 2005-08-31
A flaw in the way that several security programs and systems utilities detect system changes could allow spyware to spread surreptitiously and have renewed worries about stealthier attack code.
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Please explain...
2005-08-31
Brian M. Thomas (5 replies)
Brian M. Thomas (5 replies)
Re: Please explain...
2005-08-31
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
All-Seeing Eye handles this trick without any problem
2005-09-07
Richard T. (1 replies)
Richard T. (1 replies)
It's a bug, as everyone else said, and they do not want to admit it.
The "do not want to admit" part is very important. Although it looks like the usual denial, what is probably happening is that a legacy interface (used by regedit and others) has a limitation while a newer interface doesn't (just like the thing that happens when you create a long directory route). The big problem is that legacy apps are expecting the limitation in the legacy interface, and any changes might render them unusable. I don't think they'll lose backwards compatibility in order to fix that.
Basically, we'll have this "feature" until hell freezes over.
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