Comments on: Why Your Laptop Is Definitely Lost http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/why-your-laptop-is-definitively-lost Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Someone http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/why-your-laptop-is-definitively-lost/comment-page-1#comment-18950 Someone Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:06:20 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=721#comment-18950 Someone... For crying out loud... read the posts you criticize. That program he mentioned gets stored in the system BIOS and is further protected by a memory manager. Wiping a Hard disk is no escape. Someone…
For crying out loud… read the posts you criticize.
That program he mentioned gets stored in the system BIOS and is further protected by a memory manager.

Wiping a Hard disk is no escape.

]]> By: Someone http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/why-your-laptop-is-definitively-lost/comment-page-1#comment-18949 Someone Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:26:51 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=721#comment-18949 Wipe your hard drive if you think a program is there that you do not want. Pretty simple. I am so tired of seeing your silly posts all over the internet- all you have to do is format the computer. For crying out loud find something constructive to do. Wipe your hard drive if you think a program is there that you do not want. Pretty simple.

I am so tired of seeing your silly posts all over the internet- all you have to do is format the computer.

For crying out loud find something constructive to do.

]]> By: Kenneth A. Buchanan http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/why-your-laptop-is-definitively-lost/comment-page-1#comment-18948 Kenneth A. Buchanan Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:19:50 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=721#comment-18948 the secure password came from you & web site is Lycol (with the dog) the secure password came from you & web site is Lycol (with the dog)

]]> By: Terance Healy http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/why-your-laptop-is-definitively-lost/comment-page-1#comment-18947 Terance Healy Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:08:38 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=721#comment-18947 I was wondering if your program can detect, remove and prevent surveillance programs from installing themselves as PXe programs. I am currently experiencing one such surveillance/redirection/obfuscation program. It is called WebWatcher/Sonar. It has been the single most destructive program I have encountered in 20+ years of IT experience. THIS IS NO NET-NANNY. It is unbeatable as there seems no way to prevent the PXe part from running, and it further subverts certificates, AND makes security policy modifications so that it basically has the run of your equipment. Once it is in control, it places you inside it's VM shell from which all privacy is lost. I imagine many never even realize it it there but the clues to being held inside a VM are many, but subtle. The danger of this type of program was discussed 2 years ago and referred to as BluePill. If you can help me, please let me know. If your program does not handle it, please UPDATE your program. I can provide evidence of the intrusion and the company/people involved, but law enforcement is refusing to act on something which they do not understand. Simply reading their marketing materials on the web site wth the information I have provided will clearly indicate HOW they are able to stay so undetectable. I know I am not alone in this type of terrorism. The destruction this program causes is beyond belief. Every bank, every account, every password, EXPOSED. It has destroyed my business, my finances and my family. Terance Healy I was wondering if your program can detect, remove and prevent surveillance programs from installing themselves as PXe programs.

I am currently experiencing one such surveillance/redirection/obfuscation program. It is called WebWatcher/Sonar. It has been the single most destructive program I have encountered in 20+ years of IT experience. THIS IS NO NET-NANNY. It is unbeatable as there seems no way to prevent the PXe part from running, and it further subverts certificates, AND makes security policy modifications so that it basically has the run of your equipment. Once it is in control, it places you inside it’s VM shell from which all privacy is lost. I imagine many never even realize it it there but the clues to being held inside a VM are many, but subtle. The danger of this type of program was discussed 2 years ago and referred to as BluePill.

If you can help me, please let me know. If your program does not handle it, please UPDATE your program. I can provide evidence of the intrusion and the company/people involved, but law enforcement is refusing to act on something which they do not understand. Simply reading their marketing materials on the web site wth the information I have provided will clearly indicate HOW they are able to stay so undetectable.

I know I am not alone in this type of terrorism. The destruction this program causes is beyond belief. Every bank, every account, every password, EXPOSED. It has destroyed my business, my finances and my family.

Terance Healy

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