Sunday, May 07, 2006

Trojan Horse Delivered In Automatic Update

This is a fictional article about a Trojan Horse Virus.

Many major operating system vendors have automatic update services. Many hardware vendors and other software packages have followed this trend, incorporating automated update services into their products. In some cases, the services for automatic updates run as the local “system” account. This account has the ability to access and modify most of the operating system and application environment. When automatic updates were relative new, many people would perform the updates manually, however, as time has progressed, many now trust these services and allow the updates to proceed in a truly automated fashion.

If we don’t think that this “worse case scenario” can happen, then we’re kidding ourselves.

A very interesting read may be found HERE.

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