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Storm Worm Can Befuddle NAC

Tim Greene and Jim Duffy write on NetworkWorld:

A newly discovered capability of the Storm worm could invalidate results churned out by NAC products, attendees at Interop New York learned last week.

This new trick is Storm’s ability to interrupt applications as they boot up and either shut them down or allow them to appear to boot, but disable them, says Josh Corman, host protection architect for IBM/ISS.

Users will see that, for example, antivirus is turned on, but actually it isn’t scanning for viruses, or as Corman puts it, it is brain dead. “It’s running but it’s not doing anything. You can brain-dead anything," he says.

posted by Fergie @ 10/25/2007 07:58:00 PM