[LINK] It's that worm again

[Andy Farkas]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, David Boxall wrote:

> Doomsday scenario:
> Five years hence, a billion unsophisticated users with always on
> broadband connections, running insecure software that they don't know
> they have, let alone how to secure it.  A worm is released.
> Microsoft says there isn't a problem, for "the average home user".

Another worm is bound to be released - I'd put money on it. Especially
considering that there are still unpatched vulnerabilities[0] lurking in
their software.

A likely vector would be the "WMP Stench" bug - it allows remote execution
of any file a perpetrater chooses to upload to the victim's box.

[0] <http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/>

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
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