Which of the following statements are true about Dsniff? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.

Question

Options

• AIt contains Trojans.
• BIt is a virus.
• CIt is antivirus.
• DIt is a collection of various hacking tools.

• A
  87% (20)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  9% (2)

Explanation

Dsniff is a well-known open-source network auditing and penetration testing toolkit originally written by Dug Song. It is a collection of various hacking/network attack tools - this includes utilities like dsniff (a password sniffer), arpspoof (for ARP poisoning/MITM attacks), urlsnarf, mailsnarf, webspy, sshmitm, webmitm, and others. Because it bundles offensive capabilities together in one package, many antivirus and security products flag components within it as Trojans or malicious software - hence the statement that 'it contains Trojans' is considered correct in this context (its tools can behave like Trojans by intercepting credentials and communications). It is neither a virus (self-replicating malicious code) nor an antivirus product - both of those options are clearly false.

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