This is pure fud because this tool requires administrative privileges and this is possible also in linux using the root account. With linux a malware can replace the whole linux kernel with a single command line!!!
Linux is unsafer than Vista
yes, Firefox is vulnerable like IE. You simple put an.ani, or renamed ico, or renamed jpeg in an HTML page and Firefox automatically parse it and a trojan is automatically installed
Determina security research says Firefox users are vulnerable to this Windows flaw because Mozilla Firefox uses the same underlying Windows code for processing ANI files, and can be exploited similarly to Internet Explorer
According to the test, "Microsoft Live OneCare caught 99.91% of the known active viruses it was tested against. This left it vulnerable to 37 separate malicious programs." And that was the *worst* result. A 99.91% success rate isn't exactly horrible.
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This is pure fud because this tool requires administrative privileges and this is possible also in linux using the root account. With linux a malware can replace the whole linux kernel with a single command line!!! Linux is unsafer than Vista
you wrong! because if the exploit is launched by IE7 then the dll code is executed with the same IE7 privileges which are very very low
yes, Firefox is vulnerable like IE. .ani, or renamed ico, or renamed jpeg in an HTML page and Firefox automatically parse it and a trojan is automatically installed
You simple put an
Determina security research says Firefox users are vulnerable to this Windows flaw because Mozilla Firefox uses the same underlying Windows code for processing ANI files, and can be exploited similarly to Internet Explorer
Microsoft issued the OneCare patch on March 11. End of all FUD
ClamAV is the worst antivirus ever created: http://www.pcwelt.de/news/sicherheit/64946/index.h tml
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According to the test, "Microsoft Live OneCare caught 99.91% of the known active viruses it was tested against. This left it vulnerable to 37 separate malicious programs." And that was the *worst* result. A 99.91% success rate isn't exactly horrible.