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Archive for February, 2009

SFCList : Windows Protected Files Listing Tool

Posted in Computer Security, Security Tools on Feb 21st, 2009 8 Comments »

After I wrote about ‘Detecting System DLL’ some of my friends working on malware analysis asked for any tool which can show if the particular file is protected by SFC mechanism. I could not find [...]

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Detecting System DLL …!

Posted in Computer Security, Hidden Myths, Secure Coding, Spyware on Feb 14th, 2009 6 Comments »

Recently while working on a new tool SpyDLLRemover, I had to separate out the operating system DLLs from others.  To be precise, I needed method to reliably detect malicious DLL among all loaded DLLs of [...]

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Have you crashed into _strlwr_s() ?

Posted in Computer Security, Secure Coding on Feb 10th, 2009 4 Comments »

Almost every developer knows the cost of using insecure string function such as strcpy which can lead to buffer overflow exploits.  But no one knows the cost of using the secure string functions. Here is [...]

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Online Virus Analysis

Posted in Antivirus, Computer Security, Hidden Myths, Rootkits on Feb 8th, 2009 7 Comments »

Now a days it is very common get infected even if you have best antivirus software installed with latest signatures. One of the main reason being is the rise in new category of viruses which [...]

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Book of the month : ROOTKITS

Posted in Computer Security, Hidden Myths, Rootkits, Security Books on Feb 8th, 2009 1 Comment »

This is the incredible book ever written on darkest area of computer security world. Authors have done splendid job in presenting the most mysterious subject of computer security in very simple and easy to understandable [...]

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