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[Fred A. Miller]

On Monday 02 May 2005 2:08 pm, David Aikema wrote:
> Think about all of these viruses being spread through Microsoft
> Outlook ... no superuser access would be required for one of those to
> propogate.  This may be caused by poor accounting for security on
> Microsoft's behalf, but it does demonstrate that a significant amount
> of damage can be caused without actually needing superuser access.
>
> > If your talking about unauthorised access to your system, then a simple
> > password change for all accounts on that PC would suffice, provided that
> > your system is still "intact", meaning that it hasn't been compromised
> > by trojans, keyloggers and viruses....etc.
>
> Precisely... and after being compromised I wouldn't trust it to be
> "intact". Perhaps I'm slightly paranoid, but I wouldn't trust a
> virus-scanner to pickup everything.

I wouldn't either! Being a Sys. Admin., I've seen too often when that is 
exactly the case.

Fred

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