Hmm media and AV companies hyping a potential worm outbreak. So 2004. Doesnt anyone know that the game has changed? Researchers are all "no free bugs" or curtailed by EULAs, copyright legislation and MS bounties. Hence no proof of concept code lying around for idiots to turn into worms. Now the vulns are found by bad guys and used to send spam and steal credit card numbers.
Bad guys like to run under the radar. Wake up media and vendors.
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1 comments:
Hi,
Good article. Sophos' Conficker removal tool can detect and remove all variants of the worm/virus.
As long as people run these tools it should stop any serious outbreak.
James
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