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2.5 The "legal" RATs
Why use Net Bus or SubSeven tools to control user's PC if there are many legal
commercial RATs (Remote Administration Tool)?
Let's check if there are any problems to use Symantec pcAnywhere 11.5 (I will
scan just one file from this software – awhost32.exe, but this is doesn't change
the concept).
Here are the results of scan [6]:
This is a report processed by VirusTotal on 07/20/2005 at 23:20:39 (CET) after
scanning the file "awhost32.exe" file.
Antivirus
Version
Update
Result
AntiVir
6.31.1.0
07.20.2005
no virus found
AVG
718
07.19.2005
no virus found
Avira
6.31.1.0
07.20.2005
no virus found
BitDefender
7.0
07.20.2005
no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal
7.03
07.20.2005
no virus found
ClamAV
devel-20050712 07.19.2005
no virus found
DrWeb
4.32b
07.20.2005
no virus found
eTrust-Iris
7.1.194.0
07.19.2005
no virus found
eTrust-Vet
11.9.1.0
07.20.2005
no virus found
Fortinet
2.36.0.0
07.20.2005
no virus found
F-Prot
3.16c
07.20.2005
no virus found
Ikarus
2.32
07.20.2005
no virus found
Kaspersky
4.0.2.24
07.20.2005
no virus found
McAfee
4539
07.20.2005
no virus found
NOD32v2
1.1174
07.20.2005
no virus found
Norman
5.70.10
07.19.2005
no virus found
Panda
8.02.00
07.20.2005
no virus found
Sybari
7.5.1314
07.20.2005
no virus found
Symantec
8.0
07.20.2005
no virus found
TheHacker
5.8.2.074
07.20.2005
no virus found
VBA32
3.10.4
07.20.2005
no virus found
As expected, no problem at all. (Or do you think that some antivirus vendor will
block or mark "Symantec pcAnywhere" as "unwanted program" ?)
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