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| Author: | ElevenBravo [ Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Windows PCs face ‘huge’ virus threat |
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/0d644d5e-7bb3- ... e2340.html [quote]Computer security experts were grappling with the threat of a newweakness in Microsoft’s Windows operating system that could put hundreds of millions of PCs at risk of infection by spyware or viruses. The news marks the latest security setback for Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company, whose Windows operating system is a favourite target for hackers. [b]“The potential [security threat] is huge,†|
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| Author: | RB [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:38 am ] |
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Someone know something about symptomes? |
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| Author: | Arathorn [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:37 am ] |
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I believe you can be infected by opening images. If you do that, a website is opened wich can infect you. If you use the latest Firefox you will be prompted before the file is opened. |
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| Author: | Satis [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:42 am ] |
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I thought it was a meta-tag overflow kind of vulnerability, like the mp3 one. Ie, if Windows attempts to parse the image (ie, for display on screen) a specially crafted file will overflow the buffer into system memory. Someone that knows what they're doing could turn that into anything...they could use it to install a trojan horse, virus, spyware, whatever. I think this is it: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/securi ... 4-028.mspx |
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| Author: | Satis [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:05 am ] |
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| Author: | Arathorn [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:50 am ] |
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| Author: | Satis [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:18 am ] |
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| Author: | Mole [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:19 am ] |
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| Author: | Arathorn [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:25 am ] |
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| Author: | Satis [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:26 am ] |
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| Author: | ElevenBravo [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:52 pm ] |
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| Author: | Satis [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:26 pm ] |
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| Author: | Satis [ Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:02 pm ] |
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| Author: | Mole [ Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:28 am ] |
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| Author: | RB [ Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:28 am ] |
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