Re: today in the news

["David Lodge" <dave () cirt net>]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:21:29 +0100, Dude VanWinkle  
<dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
> "At the point we see it as a CERT, which is very early on -- the most
> popular brands of antivirus on the market … have an 80 percent miss
> rate. That is not a detection rate that is a miss rate.(")

To be honest I'm not totally surprised - after a spyware infection on my  
home PC (for which I was tempted to re-install Windows - yes, it was my  
own stupid fault I got infected). I spent around 3 hours cleaning this up.  
This was spyware that was undetected by *any* of the anti-spyware programs  
I tried (Spybot:S&D, ad-aware, hijackthis and a couple of others).

It was also very hard to get rid of (it hooked into the winlogon process -  
which you can't kill, in the end I had to bounce to a recovery console to  
kill it off)!

Grumble, grumble... bloody spyware...

dave
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