From: Butler, Theodore (tbutler@witsusa.com)
Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 13:40:02 EST
A companion question, what if you had to do this from a command line?
How would it be done without the spyware tools?
Ted
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From: Derek Nash [mailto:ddnash@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:07 PM
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Spyware assessment techniques
I am now frequently getting requests for spyware/grayware/adware
assessments as subcomponent of a larger security assessment. My
efforts up to this point have been a manual process of loading free
antispyware tools, scanning the host, individually recording the
results, classifying the types of spyware encountered and reporting
the results.
Recently I have begun to consider including data from a web usage
analysis tool that has the ability to identify spyware downloads and
phone home attempts to augment these manual efforts. I am wondering
what others are doing in regards to spyware assessments and if anyone
is aware a spyware "network scanner" that would allow me to look at a
larger sampling of hosts on a network during these assessments.
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