Lieberman & Associates Develops Cratering" -- A New Method for Battling Computer Viruses and Worms

Lieberman & Associates, a provider of Mass Management tools for Windows, announced today that it has developed a new technique for battling viruses and worms called Cratering." Cratering disables a worm or virus via ACL (Access Control List) Management, rather then deleting it, rendering the worm or virus harmless and avoiding possible re-infection by another machine in the network.

Lieberman & Associates Develops Cratering" -- A New Method for Battling Computer Viruses and Worms

New process disables worm and viruses through ACL management, preventing re-infection

Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) October 1, 2003 - Lieberman & Associates, a provider of Mass Management tools for Windows, announced today that it has developed a new technique for battling viruses and worms called Cratering." Cratering disables a worm or virus via ACL (Access Control List) Management, rather then deleting it, rendering the worm or virus harmless and avoiding possible re-infection by another machine in the network. Lieberman & Associates User Manager Pro can perform this task en masse, across any size network with just a few mouse clicks. A white paper with step-by-step instructions on how to perform Cratering is available on the Lieberman & Associates web site (make link to White paper reg. page).

Recent virus outbreaks such as the Microsoft Blaster worm allow a machine to be infected by being connected to a network that contains infected machines. Many times a machine will get so overloaded by a virus activities that the patch required to stop infection cannot be applied. When this occurs many administrators find that they must pull the network cable from the machine and manually terminate the virus process using the Window Task Manager. Only then will the machine activity subside enough to accept the patch. This process can take up to an hour or more per machine.

Disabling the virus via ACL modification is a simple task of removing the existing default permissions on the virus file(s) and replacing them with a single ACL Deny" entry set to Everyone:Full." This will lock out all access to everyone, including the operating system. The virus will be unable to start and a new infection will be unable to take hold since the disabled virus file cannot be overwritten.

We developed the Cratering process while helping our customers who were having a tough time cleansing their systems of the Blaster virus," said Phil Lieberman, owner of Lieberman & Associates. We realized that conventional methods were not working and found that Cratering the virus with User Manager Pro would buy administrators valuable time to install the proper patch, stop the spread of the virus and prevent their machines from getting re-infected.

About User Manager Pro
Cratering is just one of many tasks that User Manager Pro can perform. User Manger Pro is a feature-rich change and reporting tool for Windows-based servers and workstations that provides network administrators with the power to Mass Manage users, groups, rights, registry settings, and security policies (including password changes and virus management) simultaneously, without agents, on all of their machines, with just a few mouse clicks.

About Lieberman & Associates
Founded in 1978, Lieberman & Associates is a provider of enterprise-level Mass Management tools for Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003 operating systems. Lieberman & Associates tools are multi-threaded and scale to manage the largest Windows environments. Changes are managed from one desktop without the use of remote agents. Fortune 500 companies and government and educational institutions are currently using Lieberman & Associates Mass Management tools to control and secure their environments. For more information please visit www.lanicu.com.
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