Re: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?

[Paul Fraser <pjfraser () netspace net au>]

And written by a Microsoft employee, to boot.

On Wed, 19 May 2004 10:26 pm, Troels Bay wrote:
> Wow, that's pretty amazing.
>
> Now one can't trust somewhat 50% of all Microsoft Computers.
>
> That's rather fun, wouldn't you say?
>
> On May 19, 2004, at 14:11, A.H. wrote:
> > By Jesper M. Johansson, Ph.D., CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I
> > Security Program Manager
> >
> > Microsoft Corporation:
> > > You can’t clean a compromised system by using some “vulnerability
> > > remover.” Let’s say you had a system hit by Blaster. A number of
> > > vendors (including Microsoft) published vulnerability removers for
> > > Blaster. Can you trust a system that had Blaster after the tool is
> > > run? I wouldn’t. If the system was vulnerable to Blaster, it was also
> > >  vulnerable to a number of other attacks. Can you guarantee that none
> > >  of those have been run against it? I didn’t think so.
> > >
> > > You can’t trust any data copied from a compromised system. Once an
> > > attacker gets into a system, all the data on it may be modified. In
> > > the best-case scenario, copying data off a compromised system and
> > > putting it on a clean system will give you potentially untrustworthy
> > > data. In the worst-case scenario, you may actually have copied a back
> > > door hidden in the data.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx
> > http://www.vsantivirus.com/derribar-reconstruir.htm
> >
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