----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "KaTT KaTT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: Win98 ScreenSaver Password Backdoor Fix
> > > One other warning. I tried to download CAIN from > > http://www.confine.com/programs/ and it contained a trojan VIRUS. Please be > > careful if you try and download this instance of the program. > Question is, do the AV vendors see it as a virus(actually, a trojan), > because of the danger of "users" having it on the network, or is there some > undiscovered back door that's in it? > > Mike > I've used CAIN myself. There doesn't appear to be a backdoor in it, at least, it makes no attempts to 'phone home', and my firewall takes care of any probes that might be looking for it... Most anti-virus vendors regard all password crackers as trojans since they assume that if one is on a system, it must have been put there behind the users back, in which case they'd want to know. Technically, it is not a 'trojan' at all, but calling it that just makes it easier to categorise, and is less likely to confuse the average user. Garryck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this email.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
