RE: Blocking Instant Messaging Applications

From: Aditya Deshmukh (aditya.deshmukh_at_online.gateway.strangled.net)
Date: 11/24/05

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    To: "'Murad Talukdar'" <talukdar_m@subway.com>, "'Nick Duda'" <nduda@VistaPrint.com>, "'Gaddis, Jeremy L.'" <jeremy@linuxwiz.net>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:11:32 +0530

    > Hi Nick--do you use the hash of the binary because there's a
    > way round it if you just used the .exe name?
    > So clever users can rename the file and be back
    > online?

    Also the hash mechanism would also be very easily defeated with
    Reshacker or even with echo. >> exefilename.exe

    This would keep the file working and alter the hash of the file

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