Spyware Tunnels in on Winamp Flaw

Andy Philips writes "A security bug in Winamp is being exploited by miscreants to install spyware on machines running the media player software. "After surfing to a malicious Web site on our test machines, the file 'x.pls' begins to download, Almost immediately, Winamp starts to execute the play list and remote code execution begins." Sunbelt's Adam Thomas wrote in a posting. The Winamp problem affects version 5.12 of the media player. Earlier versions may also be affected."

Comments

Re:It's that Damn Llama's Fault

[BoomerSooner]

1999 called, they want their mp3 player back...

Jesus I didn't know winamp still existed!

Re:It's that Damn Llama's Fault

[iceanfire]

thank you for pointing that out.... i wish i could mod you up