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RE: [inbox] [Full-Disclosure] malware added in transit

From: Curt Purdy <purdy@tecman.com>
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 08:50:24 EST

Paul wrote:

> Hi all, perhaps I'm way off-base but I've been under the impression that
malware can be added
> to clean transmissions as they pass through infected nodes. Is this
possible?

 Unless you're talking about inserting a proxy in-line and manually grabbing
the packets and manipulating them at a huge amount of work, you ARE way
off-base. There is no malware I know of that would even know what the
packets were, muchless re-assemble them into the original document, insert
itself, and pass it on. Maybe by 2104...

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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