[Full-Disclosure] I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?

[Troels Bay]

Wow, that's pretty amazing.

Now one can't trust somewhat 50% of all Microsoft Computers.

That's rather fun, wouldn't you say?


On May 19, 2004, at 14:11, A.H. wrote:

> By Jesper M. Johansson, Ph.D., CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I
> Security Program Manager
> Microsoft Corporation:
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>> You can’t clean a compromised system by using some “vulnerability 
>> remover.” Let’s say you had a system hit by Blaster. A number of 
>> vendors (including Microsoft) published vulnerability removers for 
>> Blaster. Can you trust a system that had Blaster after the tool is 
>> run? I wouldn’t. If the system was vulnerable to Blaster, it was also
>>  vulnerable to a number of other attacks. Can you guarantee that none
>>  of those have been run against it? I didn’t think so.
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>> You can’t trust any data copied from a compromised system. Once an
>> attacker gets into a system, all the data on it may be modified. In
>> the best-case scenario, copying data off a compromised system and
>> putting it on a clean system will give you potentially untrustworthy
>> data. In the worst-case scenario, you may actually have copied a back
>> door hidden in the data.
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> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm0504.mspx
> http://www.vsantivirus.com/derribar-reconstruir.htm
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