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Date: 2001-11-28
Symantec und "Magic Lantern"-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- FBI-Schnueffeltool "Magic Lantern" in zukuenftigen Versionen seiner Antivirensoftware zu ignorieren, spricht Eric Chien von Symantec deutlichere Toene. Ob sich da gar ein Trend abzeichnet ? -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- AV vendors split over FBI Trojan snoops By John Leyden Posted: 27/11/2001 at 18:34 GMT Antivirus vendors are at loggerheads over whether they should include in their software packages detection for a Trojan horse program reportedly under development by the FBI. [...] MSNBC quotes unnamed sources who says that Magic Lantern could be sent to a target by email or planted on a suspect's PC by exploiting common operating system vulnerabilities. Although unconfirmed, the reports are been taken seriously in the security community, and are consistent with the admitted use of key-logging software in the investigation of suspected mobster Nicodemo Scarfo. In that case, FBI agents obtained a warrant to enter Scarfo's office and install keystroke logging software on his machine. [...] And antivirus vendors are mulling over the rights and wrongs of putting Magic Lantern on their virus definition list. Eric Chien, chief researcher at Symantec's antivirus research lab, said that provided a hypothetical keystroke logging tool was used only by the FBI, then Symantec would avoid updating its antivirus tools to detect such a Trojan. The security firm is yet to hear back from the FBI on its enquiries about Magic Lantern but it already has a policy on the matter. "If it was under the control of the FBI, with appropriate technical safeguards in place to prevent possible misuse, and nobody else used it - we wouldn't detect it," said Chien. "However we would detect modified versions that might be used by hackers." Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, disagrees. He says it it wrong to deliberately refrain from detecting the virus, because its customers outside the US would expect protection against the Trojan. Such a move also creates an awkward precedent. Cluley adds: "What if the French intelligence service, or even the Greeks, created a Trojan horse program for this purpose? Should we ignore those too?" Volltext: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23057.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2001-11-28 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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