On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:37:33 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "Aardvark" <aardvark@youllnever.know>
>
>
>> You're wasting your time, David. BD is so deeply entrenched in his
>> paranoia that he won't believe the truth of the matter.
>>
>> It doesn't take even half a brain to work out that, in order to cause a
>> simple text file to cause any problems would take a lot of work and a
>> number of conscious decisions on the part of the luzer.
>>
>> Not forgetting, a modicum of programming knowledge.
>
>
> You are correct there. Didn't want third party readers to obtain or
> believe false information from an uninformed post.
>

It's a bit much when there always has to be someone watching the ****er
in order to immediately correct incorrect information he gives or slimy
insinuations he makes, just in case some poor no0b reads it and takes it
as gospel.

> I watched his suggested video.

I didn't :-)

> Everything from ways to detect if it is
> running in a VM (yeah, been seeing those techniques for years like
> detecting "drivers\vmmouse.sys" and ) to detecting IsDebuggerPresent()
> (see that string in countless binaries) to that simple bat file.
> NOTHING in that video would indicate that a text file was used in any
> exploit or malware vector.

That'd be some trick if someone could find a way to do it.

> It was all overarching data on malware
> avoiding detection, exploiting malware vulnerabilities due to bad
> programming and on OffensiveComputing as a web site.

What? No malicious text-files? I'm shocked.

>
> Then when he is confronted with the lack of support for his misinformed
> and incorrect post and the lack of supportive/corroborative information
> he posts another malicious activity news report activity. Sheeeeeesh !

Sheeeeeesh! Indeed.



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