Second, whether the crackers gained access to shipping products or products under development, the crackers now have a better understanding of how Microsoft s security procedures work. Despite Microsoft s robust security procedures, Qaz infected the corporate LAN and was undetected for an unknown period. It might have been a family member of an employee because some Microsoft employees work at home or take work home. They wanted code, not products Whoever broke in was interested in intelligence , not products that could be sold. In other words, it wasn t a pirate who wanted to make illicit copies of Office 2000.
Pirates just buy one copy of the software and duplicate it.
The crackers were interested in seeing the source code for Microsoft products. They wanted to examine how the company s operating systems and applications deal with security issues. Protection against trojans Remote administration is nothing new. A system administrator can work on a computer without having to go to that computer. The trojan variants, though, install themseleves without the user s knowledge and have larceny or destruction as their goal.