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Clyance (Home) vs Sophos (Home) vs Voodoshield
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<blockquote data-quote="FleischmannTV" data-source="post: 521404" data-attributes="member: 23687"><p>Deactivating UAC because anti-exe is present is careless. Before an attacker spawns additional executables, he is already executing his own code. With UAC disabled, he can elevate to admin before spawning anything else, he can inject code system-wide, including admin services and the like (which would not have been possible with UAC enabled because of privilege separation). He can also drop payloads in whitelisted folders like Windows and Program Files, because UAC protects them from write access and UAC is disabled now. These are just two of many other things.</p><p></p><p>But because attackers still go for the lowest hanging fruit, this carelessness will not be punished immediately. Yet please bear in mind, with the system-wide smartscreen filter on Windows 8 and 10, attackers will be forced to choose the file-less infection pathway sooner or later, and low privilege and privilege separation play an important roll in making this harder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FleischmannTV, post: 521404, member: 23687"] Deactivating UAC because anti-exe is present is careless. Before an attacker spawns additional executables, he is already executing his own code. With UAC disabled, he can elevate to admin before spawning anything else, he can inject code system-wide, including admin services and the like (which would not have been possible with UAC enabled because of privilege separation). He can also drop payloads in whitelisted folders like Windows and Program Files, because UAC protects them from write access and UAC is disabled now. These are just two of many other things. But because attackers still go for the lowest hanging fruit, this carelessness will not be punished immediately. Yet please bear in mind, with the system-wide smartscreen filter on Windows 8 and 10, attackers will be forced to choose the file-less infection pathway sooner or later, and low privilege and privilege separation play an important roll in making this harder. [/QUOTE]
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