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'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis

Posted by timothy on from the analysis-says-your-sandbox-has-cats dept.

Tuxedo Jack writes "The Register reports that the new Atak worm cannot be analyzed or debugged by antivirus companies without quite a bit of work, due to the author being sloppy with his or her code. Windows machines, as per the norm, are the only vulnerable ones, and it still requires user intervention to infect. Perhaps future worms will start including this 'bug' in their releases. We can only hope not." It doesn't sound like a bug at all, from the virus writer's perpective.

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  1. Re:How does it do that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I dunno, maybe you could do a google search on the subject and not be such a moron?

  2. Re:Hex it? by 3terrabyte · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh I'm sure you have insights they haven't possibly conceived of yet. You should apply. I'm sure you would revolutionize the industry.

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  3. Re:Strange by nine-times · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    'I've always heard that it takes a very good programmer to write effective and powerful virus. /I>

    Not on Microsoft Windows, it seems. From the article it's even better if the virus writer is sloppy.'

    Funny. At first when I read this, being dyslexic, I thought you were saying something in the vein of "Not really. Microsoft Windows is poorly written, and look how effective and powerful a virus IT IS!"