is Cain & Abel a real threat?
http://www.oxid.it/
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/e1f488d2df89a83e5cd86b0010c6acb2bcf41bb1eb2e1e61666089d21b0754f2-1262793282
[b]Cain & Abel[/b] is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.I believe it is a threat. Even if it is not a virus, it is a piece of malware.
It’s a helpful tool for IT people to find lost passwords (more or less). I thought Microsoft developed it.
Like many useful tools they can be used for good or evil. So if you installed it for a purpose, then it is a useful tool. However, if you didn’t install it then it could also be being used for malicious purposes, the problem with such tools is determining intent.
I have some password tools that I have to store in my exclusions folder (which I have excluded from scans) to prevent detections.