How do advanced Win32 worms really work?

Kurt Natvig Norman ASA

How do advanced Win32 worms really work?

I will walk through the big viruses spreading towards the conference, and explain, in detail, how they work and show the implications on an infected computer/network etc. I will also present problems and analysis issues with these viruses - e.g. some viruses communicate with hard-coded DNS serves to retrieve information which, in many cases, present problems for closed 'virus labs' which aren't connected to the real Internet.

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