Comments on: McAfee’s “DAT 5664″ reborn as ClamAV’s “Exploit.PDF-9669″ http://lostinreception.com/2010/01/11/mcafee%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdat-5664%e2%80%b3-reborn-as-clamav%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cexploit-pdf-9669%e2%80%b3/ The Perils of Spam Filters by Roland Turner Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:13:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: McAfee’s “DAT 5664″ and ClamAV’s “Exploit.PDF-9669″ reborn as BitDefender’s “Trojan.FakeAlert.5″ « Lost in Reception http://lostinreception.com/2010/01/11/mcafee%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdat-5664%e2%80%b3-reborn-as-clamav%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cexploit-pdf-9669%e2%80%b3/#comment-32 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:25:23 +0000 http://lostinreception.com/?p=72#comment-32 [...] months ago I wrote about McAfee’s blunder, and then two months ago about Sourcefire doing the much the same; now BitDefender has joined the fun. (also, [...]

]]> By: Roland Turner http://lostinreception.com/2010/01/11/mcafee%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdat-5664%e2%80%b3-reborn-as-clamav%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cexploit-pdf-9669%e2%80%b3/#comment-28 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:08:54 +0000 http://lostinreception.com/?p=72#comment-28 No, an obscure comment on a forum somewhere about an empty string prompted me to check the possibility. Somewhere else I did see a blog posting by someone claiming to have actually recognised the hash itself.

My mental store of useless information doesn’t yet reach these heights.

]]> By: Christian Kent http://lostinreception.com/2010/01/11/mcafee%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cdat-5664%e2%80%b3-reborn-as-clamav%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cexploit-pdf-9669%e2%80%b3/#comment-27 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:38:14 +0000 http://lostinreception.com/?p=72#comment-27 How did you find that MD5 chestnut? Just a familiar pattern floating around your head?

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