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November 24th, 2004, 09:55 AM
Study: Tools Let Spyware Slip Through Cracks
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By Ryan Naraine
November 23, 2004
With the threat of a sophisticated spyware attack looming, a renowned security researcher says the most popular detection and removal tools "fail miserably" at addressing the growing spyware/malware scourge.
Just days after hackers seized control of a banner ad server and used it to load malicious programs on vulnerable machines, researcher Eric Howes issued failing grades on all anti-spyware scanners he tested during a two-week stretch in October.
Howes, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, found that the best-performing anti-spyware scanner failed to detect about 25 percent of the "critical" files and registry entries installed by the malicious programs.
"One thing I found out for sure is that no single scanner removes everything," Howes said in an interview with eWEEK.com. .... continued" }-
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1731474,00.asp
-{ Quote: "eWeek Article:
By Ryan Naraine
November 23, 2004
With the threat of a sophisticated spyware attack looming, a renowned security researcher says the most popular detection and removal tools "fail miserably" at addressing the growing spyware/malware scourge.
Just days after hackers seized control of a banner ad server and used it to load malicious programs on vulnerable machines, researcher Eric Howes issued failing grades on all anti-spyware scanners he tested during a two-week stretch in October.
Howes, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, found that the best-performing anti-spyware scanner failed to detect about 25 percent of the "critical" files and registry entries installed by the malicious programs.
"One thing I found out for sure is that no single scanner removes everything," Howes said in an interview with eWEEK.com. .... continued" }-
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1731474,00.asp