26th April 2011, 3:51 PM
ABF is correct..
Many viruses don't involve a download..
For example several types of malicious websites compromise the RPC service running on windows machines with a simple buffer underflow attack. I once saw a packet tracer log that showed RPC being compromised in just three malformed packets! Once compromised the RPC service can be used to remotely execute commands on the host computer.
Many viruses don't involve a download..
For example several types of malicious websites compromise the RPC service running on windows machines with a simple buffer underflow attack. I once saw a packet tracer log that showed RPC being compromised in just three malformed packets! Once compromised the RPC service can be used to remotely execute commands on the host computer.