On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Arnaud Jacques wrote:
>
>
> Just a not about DetectPUA setting :
>
> The PUAs are being detected based on pattern. You can find patterns  
> by doing :
> grep PUA daily.ndu
> grep PUA daily.mdu
>
> This is not a work in progress. It is not "may or may not work".  
> This is very
> reliable detection of possible unwanted software based on the same
> technologies of malware detection. It can be used in production  
> environment.
>
> Here a short list of PUAs :
> EXE packers
> Remote admin tools/VNC
> Hacking tools
> Network tools
> Keyloggers/Monitoring
> Password recovery tools
> etc...
>

Thank you for the clarification - I'll re-enable it and review the  
results again. My error was in thinking this had a heuristic component  
of detection in it and now I don't recall how I arrived at that  
conclusion. I do know it created a lot of false positives for me but I  
work in an environment where those file types are intentionally  
exchanged.

dp

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