Peapod contacted most major anti-virus and intrusion detection vendors late last week to alert them to the dangers of Investigator 2.0, but by Monday only two had replied. Ryan explained: "Most other Trojan Horses, like BackOrifice, create a...
To prevent this type of malware from attacking, companies should have both intrusion detection and firewalls as part of their security strategy, not just anti-virus software. He said: "I suspect Simon may be trying to push CA's firewall/intrusion...
Cisco has also beefed up its intrusion detection product by adding prevention software that can correlate possible symptoms of a worm or virus attack to determine whether certain traffic should be blocked.
If your intrusion detection system can't display live data in a Web format, I suggest implementing Snort, a reportable, open source IDS. You can display that data using Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID).
Current McAfee products may catch the malicious software via their intrusion detection capabilities, he said. McAfee will update its antivirus software on Wednesday to detect this latest Gaobot variant, Shmugar said.
Signature-based intrusion detection products detect attacks based on definitions that are created by the product vendor and regularly updated, much like antivirus definitions. Symantec plans to take the wraps off a new intrusion detection product...