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Win2k Security Advice Archives: Happy New Year / a little new y

Happy New Year / a little new yeasr rant - AntiVirus

Subject: Happy New Year / a little new yeasr rant - AntiVirus
From: Steve (steveWIN2KSECADVICE.NET)
Date: Sat Jan 01 2000 - 15:45:16 CST

I apologize for the off topic message but, I wanted to take this opportunity
to wish all of you a happy new year and thank you for the outstanding
support you have all given this mailing list.

I truly hope you have all found Win2K Security Advice (formerly NTSECADVICE)
to be a useful service. I hope you all continue to subscribe to the list
and continue to make it a success. Please feel free to email me with any
comments or suggestions you might have. All emails will be kept off the
list so please send them to me directly.

When I started this mailing list I never thought it would do as well as it
is doing. I owe the lists success to all of you who take the time to share
your discoveries and share your thoughts with the rest of us.

Like most of you, I had to work last night and also like most of you, I
experienced probably the biggest non-event of the millennium. The sites I
had to visit experienced absolutely no problems. Although I did find one
machine that someone forgot to upgrade the BIOS on, nothing critical was
ever threatened.

Hopefully, everyone else who was forced to work over Y2K also experienced a
relatively easy night.

Looking forward I can say that as Security Professionals we have an exciting
year ahead of us. I am definitely happy to be a part of it.

It would be out of character for me to send a message without ranting a
little bit so here it goes.

Why have the decision makers at Symantec added RFPPOISON.EXE to their virus
signatures? According to Symantec, it is a Trojan. Why do the Anti-Virus
vendors continually try to undermine and attack the work done by people such
as R.F.P. or even L0pht for that matter (NAV also detects L0phtcrack). What
kind of message is the Anti-Virus community sending to the Security
community when they list useful tools as Trojan's. Does anyone else see
anything wrong with this?

Anyways, just something that I happened to notice last night as my NAV went
crazy finding copies of BO, L0phtcrack, and RFPPOISON on my laptop I use for
security testing.

I hope you all have a great and prosperous year.

Regards;

Steve Manzuik
Moderator
Win2K Security Advice
stevewin2ksecadvice.net

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