   | Distinguished Member with 2,476 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: West"By God" Virginia Experience: continuing to learn. | | | |  | Moderator with 36,830 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vermont | | Yes, that's worth keeping in mind. Some viruses like "anniversaries". |  | Senior Member with 1,234 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Experience: on dial-up | | I heard about this warning on the news and it was said that it is really a serious problem.
This one I am taking very seriously. |  | Senior Member with 1,588 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: An Alien,a misfit on Earth Experience: Intermediate++ | | Dear Sniper,
Thank you for the timely warning! All fools Day will thus allow me to study a few hours more,since i am going to rest my PC on that day! The one person who'll be most happy other than those scumbags who are behind the confiker c variant, will be mom!  |  | Distinguished Member with 3,622 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Near Washington, D.C. Experience: Advanced in Networking | | Thanks for posting about it. Sounds like we need to be careful.  |  | Distinguished Member with 2,159 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: S.C Experience: Malware Fighter | | Microsoft Place $250,000 Bounty on the Conficker Author. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/articl...conficker_worm Quote: |
This isn't the first time Microsoft has offered such a bounty. In 2005, it paid $250,000 to two people for identifying "name removed.," the teenager who wrote the Sasser worm.
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Originally Posted by hrlow2  | Also got a new bugaboo in Firefox.
Thursday March 26, 2009
Mozilla Scrambling to Patch New Firefox Flaw 
A newly-revealed "boundary condition error" in Firefox, affecting the current version 3.07, has been released, including proof of concept code for it.
The advisory also calls this a memory corruption vulnerability and adds that :"An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected browser. Failed exploit attempt will result in a denial-of-service condition."
Mozilla is working on the problem which they call both "critical" and "FIXED". A report in Computerworld says that Firefox 3.08 will be released soon to bring us | | | Senior Member with 1,588 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: An Alien,a misfit on Earth Experience: Intermediate++ | | jls242424,
Thank you for the update on FF3's new vulnerability! | | | Account Disabled with 312 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Experience: Beginner | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jls242424 Also got a new bugaboo in Firefox.
Thursday March 26, 2009
Mozilla Scrambling to Patch New Firefox Flaw
A newly-revealed "boundary condition error" in Firefox, affecting the current version 3.07, has been released, including proof of concept code for it.
The advisory also calls this a memory corruption vulnerability and adds that :"An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected browser. Failed exploit attempt will result in a denial-of-service condition."
Mozilla is working on the problem which they call both "critical" and "FIXED". A report in Computerworld says that Firefox 3.08 will be released soon to bring us | That was fast  http://www.freewarefiles.com/Mozilla...ram_25387.html | | | Distinguished Member with 3,730 posts. | | Join Date: May 2004 Experience: Intermediate |
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#11 | | |  | Member with 77 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Languedoc, France Experience: Never too old to learn |
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#12 | | |  | Senior Member with 1,690 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Markham ON Canada Experience: Generalist - Above average all round knowledge |
29-Mar-2009, 09:18 PM
#13 | Thank Golferbob - timely. (60 minutes just did a generalized story on this one)
I've got a suspicious situation with one of my customers - I'll check it out. 60 Minutes - Sunday Mar 29 |  | Distinguished Member with 54,745 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: *Random People Pleaser***Sacra Experience: Having fun |
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#15 | | |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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