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Re: win2kup2date.exe ?
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:19:41 +1200
Über GuidoZ wrote:
... If you want to email me a copy of it, I'll rip it apart and see what can be seen.
And world plus dog should entrust you with such material because???
P.S. Send it to [...] - it's my "catch all" for virus/unknown files. Just be sure to ZIP it up or else the web host won't let it through. Otherwise I have disabled all checks/scan. Downloads directly to a secured Linux box.
That's all very nice, but alone, far from the makings of someone to entrust arbitrary, suspected malware samples to. I'm also rather suspicious of your promotion of Virus Total. Hispasec, as far as I can tell (Spanish being something I have to have translated via online services), has no antivirus or similar product of its own, yet it has set up, and some folk seem to be promoting, what is effectively a sample collection mechanism. I've also heard vague rumblings that Hispasec/Virus Total does not have suitable licenses for at least some of the scanners used in its service (and strongly suspect that several of the AV vendors whose products are currently used would not allow their products to be licensed for use in a service of the kind Virus Total offers anyway because it paints a rather disturbing trust picture -- "You can trust me because I can run a virus scanner..."). Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- win2kup2date.exe ? bashis (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Über GuidoZ (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Nick FitzGerald (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? James Tucker (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Über GuidoZ (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Über GuidoZ (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Über GuidoZ (Sep 03)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Nick FitzGerald (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Über GuidoZ (Sep 02)
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- RE: win2kup2date.exe ? James Patterson Wicks (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Über GuidoZ (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? James Tucker (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Über GuidoZ (Sep 02)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? James Tucker (Sep 03)
- Re: win2kup2date.exe ? Nick FitzGerald (Sep 03)