Re: FV's Borenstein discovers keystroke capture programs! (pictures at 11!)
2. It has nothing to do with viruses. No current virus protection program will ever detect this thing, and if you write a program that detects one instantiation of the attack, the program can be easily changed to require a new "detector" program. This means you can only protect against the last attack, not the next one.
It has *everything* to do with viruses. Your program is not a virus BUT the press release tells the "danger" of trusting your own computer. If your own computer is doing something other than what the software on it is advertised as doing you have a virus, or trojan horse like a dirty-picture-viewer-with-keyboard-capture. Virus's and trojan horses are nothing new. The detector programs keep up with them quite nicely and make a good buck doing it. As for the technical content of the program - I'ld hack up a DOS version tonight if I thought it was worth my effort to drag the PC compiler/assembler out of mothballs. (I don't do MS-Windows). A weeks time is more that enough for any technically competent programmer to do the capture and add in the Windoze bells and whistles. I find that FV's hype on this is nothing but a thin disguise for a selling of their product. Come-on guys. Sell your product, not FUD. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Oelke Alcatel Network Systems droelke@aud.alcatel.com Richardson, TX
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