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Trend Micro Anti-virus Software Leaves Users Open To Attack

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While businesses tend to respond to the threat of a new virus within days or weeks, home users are not only more likely to leave a computer open to attack, they're also more likely to open a worm attached to an e-mail message.



Trend Micro anti-virus software leaves users open to attack

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As health staff and patients are restricted in terms of movement due to the lockdown, the decrease in mobility and border closures make individuals and organizations turn to technology to provide essential health services such as appointments, diagnosis, and even operations. Examples are the use of eConsultation (electronic consultation) services for patients and electronic multidisciplinary teams. Although these technologies have their advantages, they leave users and receivers of these technologies open to a variety of attacks such as phishing campaigns and ransomware attacks [18].


Antivirus software itself usually runs at the highly trusted kernel level of the operating system to allow it access to all the potential malicious process and files, creating a potential avenue of attack.[153] The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence agencies, respectively, have been exploiting anti-virus software to spy on users.[154] Anti-virus software has highly privileged and trusted access to the underlying operating system, which makes it a much more appealing target for remote attacks.[155] Additionally anti-virus software is "years behind security-conscious client-side applications like browsers or document readers. It means that Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Word or Google Chrome are harder to exploit than 90 percent of the anti-virus products out there", according to Joxean Koret, a researcher with Coseinc, a Singapore-based information security consultancy.[155]


TCP ports 1494 and 2598 are used for ICA and CGP and are therefore likely to be open at firewalls so that users outside the data center can access them. Citrix recommends that you do not use these ports for anything else, to avoid the possibility of inadvertently leaving administrative interfaces open to attack. Ports 1494 and 2598 are officially registered with the Internet Assigned Number Authority ( ).





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