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Comodo Firewall vs Fileless Malware
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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 642777" data-attributes="member: 32547"><p>[USER=7463]@cruelsister[/USER], so is this a case where a macro (in standardly allowed/unmonitored WINWORD.exe) creates a text file and then uses the contents to request use of wscript.exe (starting the episode)? If so, I guess some vendors are saying fileless because neither the macro nor the text file are considered monitorable (companies require macros so that's out and then text isn't an executable).</p><p></p><p>I feel like the clever terminology "fileless" hides a simple truth in this instance. Comodo monitors .txt file contents as potentially useful by a program/malware and can in cases like this consider it an executable while some apparently do not if I understand correctly. I wouldn't either consider this fileless.</p><p></p><p>BTW, it would be fascinating to know if Avast in hardened would have blocked this malware.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 642777, member: 32547"] [USER=7463]@cruelsister[/USER], so is this a case where a macro (in standardly allowed/unmonitored WINWORD.exe) creates a text file and then uses the contents to request use of wscript.exe (starting the episode)? If so, I guess some vendors are saying fileless because neither the macro nor the text file are considered monitorable (companies require macros so that's out and then text isn't an executable). I feel like the clever terminology "fileless" hides a simple truth in this instance. Comodo monitors .txt file contents as potentially useful by a program/malware and can in cases like this consider it an executable while some apparently do not if I understand correctly. I wouldn't either consider this fileless. BTW, it would be fascinating to know if Avast in hardened would have blocked this malware. [/QUOTE]
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