- It's the applications, stupid
- Will a whitelist save personal computing?
- Thousands of Web sites under attack
- To solve the unsolvable problem
- Re-thinking the security of virtual machines
- Security Development Lifecycle trumps code complexity
- Is your Web site FIPS compliant?
- Computer security: Why have least privilege?
- Strategic security: Get a handle on authentication
- Control user installs of software
March 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)
SANS guys making anti-spyware testing suite
Two well-loved SANS moderators and teachers are developing (on behalf of their full-time company, Intelguardians, an application or test suite so that users can test their anti-spyware applications.
The test suite mimics spyware-like mechanisms. Any decent anti-spyware application should flag the test suite applications as spyware. They are doing this to root out poor anti-spyware applications.
Posted by Roger Grimes on March 20, 2006 02:11 PM
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I ran the Spycars Spyware suite (www.spycar.org/Spycar.html) on a Windows 2003 server SP1 with June 2006 security patches and IE Enhanced security configuration.
All 17 tests plus TowTruck returned the same result "xxx.exe is not a valid Win32 application".
Great that Windows protects me, bad that I cant evaluate any Spyware software.
