Virus Scanners Clear Attackers a Path To Your Computer With Approximately 800 Vulnerabilities Detected
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published 07/8/2008
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N.Runs AV claims a major problem with anti virus detection products on the market.
"During the past few months, specialists from the n.runs AG, along with other security experts, have discovered approximately 800 vulnerabilities in anti-virus products.
The conclusion: contrary to their actual function, the products open the door to attackers, enable them to penetrate company networks and infect them with destructive code.
The positioning of anti-virus software in central areas of the company now poses an accordingly high security risk."
If this is true then every company & individual who has a virus scanner, can be open to having malware installed on their computer without their knowledge or consent.
"The tests performed by the consulting company and solutions developer n.runs have indicated that every virus scanner currently on the market immediately revealed up to several highly critical vulnerabilities.
These then pave the way for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and enable the infiltration of destructive code – past the security solution into the network.
With that, anti-virus solutions actually allow the very thing they should instead prevent."
While virus scanners do their best to prevent security breaches, if the above is true, there quite possibly could be threats operating on our computers that we have no idea are there.
How is this possible?
N.Runs goes on to explain.
"In this context, n.runs was able to make out so-called "parsing" as one of the main causes of this boomerang effect.
The principle functions as follows: virus scanners must recognize as many "Malware" applications as possible and thereby comprehend and process a large number of file formats.
In order to be able to interpret the formats, an application must partition the corresponding file into blocks and structures.
This separation of data into analyzable individual parts is called "parsing".
Mistaken assumptions in the course of programming the parsing code create constellations which enable the infiltration and subsequent running of program code.
Moreover, the quick reactions time expected by developers (regarding threats) contributes to a decrease in the quality of the code.
In short: the more parsing that takes place, the higher the recognition rate and the degree of protection from destructive software, but at the same time, the larger the attack surface – which makes the anti-virus solution itself a target. Systematic industrial and industrial espionage – along with the interruption of all e-mail communication – are merely tow of the possible consequences."
This poses a serious question !
If your computer is infected, what can you do.
The only product I know that is capable of turning your computer activity invisible to any threat already on your computer is SpyCop Cloak
SpyCop Cloak will not only render all your computer activity invisible to malware, hackers, keyloggers, trojans worms & spyware, it will alert you when any running process on your computer tries to intercept your work.
In the interest of full disclosure, SpyCop Cloak is a product my company has developed specifically to address the problem of malware already on a computer.
"During the past few months, specialists from the n.runs AG, along with other security experts, have discovered approximately 800 vulnerabilities in anti-virus products.
The conclusion: contrary to their actual function, the products open the door to attackers, enable them to penetrate company networks and infect them with destructive code.
The positioning of anti-virus software in central areas of the company now poses an accordingly high security risk."
If this is true then every company & individual who has a virus scanner, can be open to having malware installed on their computer without their knowledge or consent.
"The tests performed by the consulting company and solutions developer n.runs have indicated that every virus scanner currently on the market immediately revealed up to several highly critical vulnerabilities.
These then pave the way for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and enable the infiltration of destructive code – past the security solution into the network.
With that, anti-virus solutions actually allow the very thing they should instead prevent."
While virus scanners do their best to prevent security breaches, if the above is true, there quite possibly could be threats operating on our computers that we have no idea are there.
How is this possible?
N.Runs goes on to explain.
"In this context, n.runs was able to make out so-called "parsing" as one of the main causes of this boomerang effect.
The principle functions as follows: virus scanners must recognize as many "Malware" applications as possible and thereby comprehend and process a large number of file formats.
In order to be able to interpret the formats, an application must partition the corresponding file into blocks and structures.
This separation of data into analyzable individual parts is called "parsing".
Mistaken assumptions in the course of programming the parsing code create constellations which enable the infiltration and subsequent running of program code.
Moreover, the quick reactions time expected by developers (regarding threats) contributes to a decrease in the quality of the code.
In short: the more parsing that takes place, the higher the recognition rate and the degree of protection from destructive software, but at the same time, the larger the attack surface – which makes the anti-virus solution itself a target. Systematic industrial and industrial espionage – along with the interruption of all e-mail communication – are merely tow of the possible consequences."
This poses a serious question !
If your computer is infected, what can you do.
The only product I know that is capable of turning your computer activity invisible to any threat already on your computer is SpyCop Cloak
SpyCop Cloak will not only render all your computer activity invisible to malware, hackers, keyloggers, trojans worms & spyware, it will alert you when any running process on your computer tries to intercept your work.
In the interest of full disclosure, SpyCop Cloak is a product my company has developed specifically to address the problem of malware already on a computer.
