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Hacker Defender Antidetection Closes Shop

#1 quietman7

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Posted 03 March 2006 - 08:37 AM

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The author of the Hacker Defender rootkit has announced that he will stop offering the so-called antidetection service, which promised to hide the rootkit from anti-virus products and even from rootkit detectors such as F-Secure BlackLight.

f-secure.com/weblog

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 02:35 PM

More infomation can be found here. It's a very interesting read.
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Posted 05 March 2006 - 02:47 PM

So the author says he was tired of the circumvention 'chess game'. It may have been a game to him but I have not found any users feeling that way when cleaning his "product" from their infected PCs.

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Posted 05 March 2006 - 04:13 PM

It's a very strange article and it's sort of written as if ew've meant to feel sorry for the malware-writer!
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Posted 05 March 2006 - 10:30 PM

D-Trojanator, on Mar 5 2006, 04:13 PM, said:

It's a very strange article and it's sort of written as if ew've meant to feel sorry for the malware-writer!
David

*insert sarcastic voice* Yes, I feel truly sorry for him...Boo-ho....

#6 quietman7

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Posted 07 March 2006 - 09:51 AM

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in an e-mail exchange with eWEEK, "Holy Father" said he isn't throwing in the towel, and that he may return to rootkit development after taking a break from Hacker Defender to work on other projects.

security.ithub.com/article

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