Ethical Hacking Learn to find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do! Gain real world hands on hacking experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Course designed and taught by expert instructors with years of penetration testing experience. 12 student maximum in every class. Certification attempt included in every package. | Computer Forensics Training at InfoSec Institute Gain the in-demand skills of a certified computer examiner, learn to recover trace data left behind by fraud, theft, and cybercrime perpetrators. Discover the source of computer crime and abuse at your organization so that it never happens again. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. |

| Subject: | MacOSX worm |
|---|---|
| Date: | 26 Oct 2004 16:09:06 -0000 |
SF has a Register article about Opener/Renepo-A. The article describes this as a "rootkit" (the term is, in fact, used in the title of the article), yet Sophos (linked in the article) classifies it as a worm. Neither the Register article nor the Sophos write up describe any rootkit-like capabilities. Here's the Symantec writeup: http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/macos.renepo.b.html The Register article calls the "rootkit" "destructive", yet doesn't describe any destructive capabilities. However, the Symantec writeup does. So...what's the real deal? Is the media spreading FUD, or is the A/V community downplaying the effectiveness of this bit of malware? Thanks, Harlan Carvey "Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery" http://www.windows-ir.com
| <Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread> |
|---|---|---|
| ||
| Previous by Date: | Re: Virus On Network, Kern, Tom |
|---|---|
| Next by Date: | RE: MacOSX worm, Steven Trewick |
| Previous by Thread: | Virus On Network, Joe Cervantes |
| Next by Thread: | Re: MacOSX worm, Bruce Walker |
| Indexes: | [Date] [Thread] [Top] [All Lists] |