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We’re Not Guilty, We Didn’t Provide Any Snoop Software After All

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This is a news article that almost meets the criteria of "dog bites man".  A Snooping software company making it’s software less invasive, not because the law forced them to, but because they have a conscience.  But I really recommend you read the complete survey on the snooping software market and legality article, it’s interesting.

Mr. Eaton is the founder of TrueActive, which makes a computer program that buyers can install on a Rick Eaton target computer and monitor everything that the machine’s user does on the PC. 

Spying with software has been around for several years but Mr. Eaton decided that one new feature in his program crossed a line between monitoring and snooping.

That feature is called "silent deploy," which allows the buyer to place the program on someone else’s computer secretly via e-mail, without having physical access to the machine. To Mr. Eaton, that constituted an invitation to install unethical and even illegal wiretaps. He made the change, he said, "so we could live with ourselves." …

… Law enforcement officials seem to agree. According to Chris Johnson, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, the F.B.I. recently began an investigation in California into the maker of one program, LoverSpy, that advertises heavily via junk e-mail, or spam….

But at least one program, he said, may not pose a real threat — of spying, at least. Mr. Gordon said that his company’s security researchers, working with the Justice Department, were unable to find any actual working software that could be downloaded from the LoverSpy site after paying the fee.

He seemed less than stunned by the notion that a product advertised via spam might not be all that it was claimed to be. "You can’t be all that surprised," he said.

They claim a defense against slander is the truth.  I guess a defense against invasive spyware is to advertise it, charge for it, and then not supply it?  Kind of like selling cigarettes to minors and then it turns out the pack is empty ;-)

If you have Adobe Acrobat 7 or 8, make sure it’s updated

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from Sunbelt Blog by Sunbelt Software Blog

Our good friends over at iDefense sent us a heads-up on some nastiness occurring with unpatched Adobe Acrobat 7 and 8 versions.
According to their advisory (attached here, PDF):

Since Jan. 20, 2008, banner ads have actively served malicious PDF files that exploit the vulnerability and install the Zonebac Trojan horse. Once installed, the Trojan kills various antivirus products and modifies search results and banner ads. A similar attack occurred in October 2007 when the same group used a Realplayer zero-day exploit to install the Zonebac Trojan.

No anti-virus vendors currently detect the malicious PDF files. This type of exploit can be used in Web browser and email attack vectors. This vulnerability affects Adobe Acrobat Reader v7.x and versions prior to 8.1.2. Complete mitigation requires upgrading to Adobe Acrobat 8.1.2.

Adobe security advisory link here.
We’ve analyzed the binaries of this attack and it’s real. Updating Acrobat is easy: Just go to Help/Check for Updates. Do it as quickly as possible.
Alex Eckelberry

I am a regular subscriber of Alan.  I recommend you do the same if you are serious about spyware and other snooping issues.  He’s reported many exploits and problems over the years.  When I first read this one though I was suspicious that it might be a bit over the top.  It’s one thing to distribute real-world malicious files in .PDF’s … but the statement that these also shut down various antivirus products seemed pretty darn powerful.  So I followed the Adobe link.  You should too!

Seems to me I was getting a lot of update notices from Adobe, but apparently that was a false assumption.  My reader was way out of date.  Why take chances, update now!  Thanks, Alan.