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Can you show data about Avast being comparable to a trojan? Disclosure, worked there 15 years ago.
by thrw42A8N 2y ago
Can you show data about Avast being comparable to a trojan?
Disclosure, worked there 15 years ago.
- cess11 2y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-p... I think you can find more stuff like this through your own digging.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoNot what I'd consider a trojan, but I agree that it's bad - so alright, point taken. (In my dictionary, trojan allows remote control. Maybe I'm just old.)
- cortesoft 2y agoIn my dictionary, a trojan is any malicious software that is hidden inside useful software, no matter what it does.
- cess11 2y agoTypically they do, the infrastructure is there with automatic updates and C&C-like abilities. The driver runs close to the kernel to be able to use hooks into files closing and so on, at least on MICROS~1 operating systems. Did the Crowdstrike thing earlier this year reach you? They sell a corporate version of this kind of trojan, and did a fuckup in an update, suddenly making a lot of people realise that someone else has control over their computers.
- Hedepig 2y agoI read the original comment as hyperbole. But can see why it was confusing. Edit: that came out way more condescending than I intentended
- _joel 2y agoI don't remember remote control being part of the Trojan Horse saga.
- exploderate 2y agoSophos was the latest scandal. Though, it's unclear to me to which degree their antivirus tools helped to install the malware. Maybe it was just the target selection from telemetry data. Maybe they used it to deploy the "kernel implant"? https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-and-opinion-Sophos-and-the-broken-vow-10013195.html https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-and-opinion-Sophos-...