Re: IDS and Spywares

From: Dhruv Soi (dhruv_ymca_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/08/05

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    To: neelabhsharma1@gmail.com, focus-ids@securityfocus.com
    
    

    Yeah you are right. Spyware detection through any
    anti-spyware program would be stronger mechanism than
    detecting it through IDS. But installation or
    information upload attempt of spyware can be blocked
    by IDS. Blocking may be in terms of detecting the
    vulnerability exploit attempt using which spyware
    installation occurs. Like IE vulnerabilities (IE chm,
    Drag Drop etc etc), or it could be detecting unique
    CLSIDs of known Spyware programs. And there are many
    products (Tipping Point, iPolicy etc. etc.) which
    claim that they block Spyware in their IDS. But I
    don't believe that Network based Spyware detection is
    full proof protection for Spyware but still it helps
    to certain extend.

    Ciao
    Dhruv

    --- neelabhsharma1@gmail.com wrote:

    > Could anyone in the group name a few IDS which
    > detect spywares. In my view spywares are to be
    > detected by an antivirus system and not by a network
    > device.
    >
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