I normally wouldn't post about Windows here, but this one's too weird: Windows systems are being attacked all over the world and no one, including MS, can figure out how it's happening. Well, presumably the authors/perpetrators of the attack know what it is and how it works, but they're not talking about it in public fora at least. The attack is not a virus or a worm, so virus scanners don't work against it.
I can't think of too many things that are more scary than owing a computer (or a few thousand computers) that are vulnerable or have already succumbed to an exploit and not having a clue about what's wrong and how to fix it. On a positive note, MS, while acknowledging that the problem exists, has squarely put the problem in perspective in a manly and straightforward fashion: </sarcasm> ``Valentine, too, took the opportunity to point out the widespread bugs that have been discovered in competing operating products such as Linux and Unix.'' Yeah, right. My prediction: the next 6 months will bring up at least one virus/worm/trojan that has infected millions of computers running MS a long while ago and had never been detected since no one knew of its existence. Code Red, Nimda, Klez, etc only came to light because of bad programming by the virus authors. I'm sure there's someone with much better virus writing skills who has already written and propagated a virus that is undetectable by technology available today. More details about the current unknown threat: MS advisory http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q328691 Lead Windows developer bugged by security http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/05/020905hnmssecure.xml Mysterious Hack Attack Strikes Windows Users http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3398556,00.html Regards, -- Raju -- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
