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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:Strange by cuzality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does that some from somewhere, or is that your personal philosophy?

  2. Re:Strange by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, it's just my opinion. While possibly on topic, the quote you posted is unfortunately an infectious meme. 'X' cannot be proven true or false, so it must be true. Believe in 'Y' and salvation is assured. I have an allergy to crap like that.