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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: BouncingAyatollah on 10 December 2003, 21:41

Title: New Windows Messenger Service exploit discovered
Post by: BouncingAyatollah on 10 December 2003, 21:41

A new exploit of Windows Messenger Service has been discovered which would allow almost instantaneous infection of all machines on a network.

http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=16700058 (http://www.securitypipeline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=16700058)

"This newfound exploitation path dramatically increases the speed at which a worm could propagate within a local network, making widespread infection theoretically almost instantaneous,"

Title: New Windows Messenger Service exploit discovered
Post by: WMD on 11 December 2003, 00:24

Yet another.  This shit is too funny...   :D  

Luckily this one didn't require a reboot (miracle  :eek:  )

[ December 10, 2003: Message edited by: WMD ]