10:39 PM

Ah, irony — SecurityFocus HOME News: Backdoor program gets backdoored.

In a disclaimer evocative of advisories from more mainstream software vendors, Sleaze pointed out in his posting that the backdoor password in circulation only works on an older, unsupported versions of the Trojan horse, and that the latest version of Optix Pro uses stronger encryption to protect a different master password. “So make sure you update!,” he wrote.

At least one security expert says there’s a lesson to be learned from the whole affair. “It obviously says you should always use open-source Trojans,” says Mark Loveless, a senior security analyst with Bindview Corporation. “That’s the moral. You can’t even trust Windows malware.”