Re: A Very Dangerous Worm in Windows Metafile Images (WMF)


"Winfield Hill" <Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Frank Bemelman wrote...
> >
> > Mike Monett wrote...
> >
> >> This is a very serious problem. Watch the internet melt
> >> tomorrow when everyone comes back from XMas vacation.
> >
> > Hahahahaha.....
>
> Most of us don't visit malicious web pages.

"Knowingly" or maybe "Deliberately" lacking from that overly confident
assertion; There are relatively trivial and well known ways to send your
legitimate requests to any malicious web pages/content required!!

It is a design feature of IPv4 and also IPv6 that the local network segment
is implicitly trusted - as is DNS - so all it takes is for ONE person on the
same network segment as you to slip up (or for said person feeling the urge
to flash his laptop on a WiFi LAN in the Airport lounge and bringing it
inside the firewall loaded with "freebies").

The odds for that are good since "Most ..." != "All".


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