Malware - discussion

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/1444251

Not what I care about (Score:4, Insightful)
by brunes69 (86786) <slashdot@keir[ ]ad.org ['ste' in gap]> on Tuesday December 12 2006, @11:17AM (#17209182) Homepage
Leak tests imitate common methods used by trojans or spyware to send your information from your computer.

This is the least important piece of security I care about on my PC.

If there is a trojan already running on my PC, then I have already lost the war. It is irrelevant if it can communicate directly with an outside server or not. It could send data in a PLETHORA of undetectable ways aside from this (could send stealth emails from my default email program, could post data stealthily in a hidden frame it sets as my browser start page, etc etc).

The goal is to not get the spyware and virii on your PC in the first place. Once it's there, you're already screwed.
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