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Re: [Full-Disclosure] FW: Last Microsoft Patch
- To: Jeremiah Cornelius <jeremiah@nur.net>
- Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] FW: Last Microsoft Patch
- From: j <frobozz@frotz.us>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:44:36 -0400
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 17:41, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote:
> This is the latest take on the same old trojan that' sbeen circulating for
> close to two months now.
>
> The biggest effect I can see this as having is a conceptual Denial of Service
> against the public's trust in patching and remote updates. "Now I just don't
> know what's safe."
My favorite 'take' was the following - it shows how swen adapts to what it
/thinks/ the current date is...
> Microsoft Partner
>
> this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2009,
> Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security
> vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS
This one killed me - ROFLMAO.
I've gotten about 250 swens, every single one sent to an email address
that appears solely on the Netfilter mailing list. That doesn't bode
well for Linux firewalling, perhaps... ;^)
j
MCP. Defenestrator. Cynic.
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