The Trojan horse detection software known as "The Cleaner" from Moosoft Development lists Leaktest as a Trojan horse program in their database. What's that about?

Steve, LeakTest was added after numerous customers, news magazine editors and people on your ShieldsUp! newsgroup complained that LeakTest was not stopped by The Cleaner. We tried to explain the purpose of LeakTest and why we did not think it should be a "Trojan" issue, but to no avail. That is why we worded the information in the database as we did, which you can see at: http://www.moosoft.com/products/cleaner/search/?action=view-trojan&query=Gibson+Research+Leaktest" We appreciate all you have done and I do not want to cause any sort of rift between us. ShieldsUp! has been especially supportive of MooSoft and The Cleaner. If you have any idea on a compromise we're all ears :) Daniel MooSoft Development

So there you have it. I'm completely satisfied with their position. The Moosoft Development folks clearly understand that LeakTest is a good thing, and is not any sort of Trojan. But by design it is a "Trojan Simulator" (although one that wears a bright white hat) so they came under pressure to demonstrate that their detector could detect it. Fine. It does. Case closed.

I've heard about other vulnerabilities in specific firewalls, like ways that some Trojan horse programs might be able to shut them down or penetrate them. Why don't you talk about those?

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