(The) vast majority of the machines infected...are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until people get home from work and boot up their machines. We'd like to think that they whole problem was avoided and everybody cleaned up their machines in time. But unfortunately, that's probably not true. |
A large company would not want somebody entering their premises with an infected phone because they could easily infect the entire company's phones. |
Although the WMF bug is there (in the older versions), there's no known code at the moment to exploit it. |
As long as the attacker's file begins with that prefix, it will go undetected by most antivirus programs out there, ... breaks the operating system spectacularly. |
As the virus is not new – it's 2 years old – this could only have happened if those testing computers were not running any anti-virus programs, |
At the moment we are not aware of any attacks that would have used this vulnerability. |
breaks the operating system spectacularly. |
But at least you know someone on your premises has an infected phone. |
Certainly the most significant change has been the evolution of virus writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain. And this trend is showing no signs of stopping. |
Certainly the most significant change has been the evolution of virus-writing hobbyists into criminally operated gangs bent on financial gain. And this trend is showing no signs of stopping. |
Companies should make sure that their patch procedures extend to all applications, including security and backup programs. |
Everybody was hoping they would get the patch out before a major attack would start. Now it looks like they are succeeding in doing just that. Well done. |
Everybody would like to see the patch as soon as possible, but I can't blame Microsoft for wanting to test it thoroughly. However, if a widespread worm is found before next Tuesday, I do believe they will break the cycle and just release the patch. |
Everything would look fairly convincing if they did some surfing to check out the site before clicking on the link. But they would still get burned. |
He's been playing a game of cat and mouse [with the authorities] for over two years. I really do hope they'll be able to track him down. |