On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 [email protected] wrote: > The attacker has root access, and can craft the trojan any form s/he > wants. I don't see how the AV would detect this type of custom-made > trojan.
You do not need "root access" or a virtual machine to craft a custom-made trojan. This means we can simplify the question as follows: Can antivirus prevent an arbitrary piece of malicious code from entering the network? And the answer is simple: No, it cannot. Stop fastening screws with a hammer. It has never worked. -- Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak / Jeremiah 9:21 \ "For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21th century edition / _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
