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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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Re: So, don't run as administrator on WIndows 2006-07-12
AnonymousCISSP
It's not that simple.

Problem is that a lot of exploits run with privs for the service that they target not the user. So if a user with no privs runs a server that requires root privileges, a buffer overflow (for example) will get the root privs not the limited user privs.

That's behavior t...

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