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Security threats Toolkit

Story: Antivirus tools becoming hackers' new favourite

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Posted by: Brian Lewis (Tuesday 21 June 2005, 12:42 PM)

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This is a very interesting article and answers a question for me.
Last week I renewed my subscription to Panda Titanium for another year, and what fun I had. I downloaded v.2005 and installed it only to find that every time I tried to log on to AOL the computer crashed. Then up pops WinPatrol asking if I wanted to allow a programme to install, namely '%systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k'. A search on Google revealed that this could quite possibly be a variant of the Sasser worm, or something very similar. I immediately noyified Panda of this but, so far, they have not replied. Result: I cancelled my sub. and installed another antivirus prog. instead.

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