New Internet Worm Breaks Discovery Speed RecordAMSTERDAM (Nov. 9) - A new computer worm emerged on Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a full-blown virus that spreads in the wild. The vulnerability was discovered and made public by two hackers with aliases ''ned'' and ''SkyLined'' on Friday, and only four days later a worm exploiting the weakness was developed and set loose, several virus-trackers reported.Microsoft said the worm is a variant of MyDoom and that it was investigating the threat the worm poses.Some anti-virus companies said the new worm was different from MyDoom because it spreads via weblinks and not e-mail attachments. ''People will receive an e-mail saying that their PayPal account has been credited or that they are invited to watch a webcam. When they click on the link, just by viewing a site it executes code and infects the computer,'' said technical consultant Graham Cluley at Sophos Anti-Virus.Microsoft was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later on Tuesday, but the company could not immediately say if a patch for the new worm would be part of it.However, the software giant said that consumers who had installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP were at a reduced risk.The weakness in Internet Explorer is known as the IFRAME buffer overflow vulnerability.
Microsoft was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later on Tuesday...
Originally posted by Maverick Just got a question that this brought up. Why can't these hackers do something helpful like take out the computer nets for aljazira and other tools that the terrorists use?
Originally posted by Nash Is there any disadvantage to using Firefox?
