From: Craig Lant (craig@ack.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 16:28:26 PST
Thanks Bruce & Aron,
I think It's also worth pointing out that this site IS trying to sell
something. Their implication that anti-virus software doesn't detect
and remove trojans is not really true. I just did a search for the word
"trojan" in Symantec's "virus encyclopedia" and got 3223 results.
That's not the 9032 trojans that anti-trojan claims to detect. But,
again, they are trying to sell something. I think all of the big
anti-virus companies do a pretty good job of staying on top of new
viruses, worms, AND trojans. That said, I'm sure anti-trojan is also a
fine product.
On area where they do fall short is in dealing with so called
"spyware" which is sometimes categorized as trojans. But, the best tool
I've found for dealing with that is AD-Aware from Lavasoft
(http://www.lavasoftusa.com).
Thanks,
Craig
Bruce Satow wrote:
> Hi Aron,
>
> Yeah, that site is overly specific. I just wanted to point out to
> people the fact that even though you may have an anti-virus program
> installed, it doesn't mean that you are safe from being compromised via
> trojan or worm.
>
> Also check out http://www.grc.com and look at the leak detector. Some
> trojans are 'one-way' doors just sending out information to some
> location....
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