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What's new on MalwareCity.com? New weekly Q&A video session!

07 July 2010
Find out what's new on MalwareCity.com from Catalin Cosoi, Head of the Online Threats Lab at BitDefender. BitDefender is starting a series of Q&A videos. Post your comments and questions and the BitDefender Labs will answer them the following week.

 

How it Works

We take your comments and questions from this week and we will answer them next week. Obviously, if we get like millions and millions of questions, we will choose the ones that require an asap answer. We have a limited timeframe for each movie and we want to squeeze as much information as possible in that timeframe.

This being said, let the questioning begin!!!




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MM said on Jul-7-2010 21:16

I've got a few questions, and I hope that one or two of them could be answered(although they don't directly concern bitdefender).

1. How does a router firewall help against trojans? I know how NAT works and what ports are, but couldn't trojan contact his creator from inside and use a random port? And why are open ports dangerous as long as there's no application listening on this port?
2. Why is a non HTTPS/SSL-session insecure? Except for a "man-in-the-middle"-attack I don't know how unencrypted data could be stolen when using a non HTTPS-session.
3. What happens from finding a malware sample till publishing a definition against it? How are the samples named and why don't all companies use a standardized naming convention?
4. (less a question, more a request) Could you make some videos which show how a pc gets infected, what the malware does in detail and how the pc can be cleaned again? Would be interesting to see.

Many questions and many thanks ;)

Aegaeon said on Jul-7-2010 21:50

I second all four requests made by MM, Especially question three.
In conjunction to his questions, I have some of my own:
1. Does BitDefender deploy honeypots or honeynets to capture spam and malicious activity? If so, how do they work?
2. Does BitDefender offer any free sandbox programs, or is a sandbox feature planned to be included in a future security suite?
3. When will BitDefender's Uncover tool (http://www.bitdefender.com/site/view/Uncover.html) be complete and released to the public?

Thanks again, and I'm really digging the new site!

dickinson said on Jul-7-2010 21:55

i'm not sure if it's related, but can you explain what pharming is and how can i be protected? thanks.

Silviucu said on Jul-8-2010 15:41

Hello. First of all, great effort doing this series of movies !
All of the above questions are interesting, but none of them relates to a subject I'd really like more insight into.
So, could you tell me more about wireless security ? Especially:
1. Why does everyone recommend WPA or WPA2 encryption instead of WEP encryption?
2. How can multiple wireless networks exist in the same room and still be secure?
3. How can i keep my computer safe in an unsecured wireless network?
4. What's the best practice to keep people away from my own private wireless network?

Thanks a lot !

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