[funsec] Microsoft blames Vista insecurity on thirdparty applications

[Nick FitzGerald]

Blue Boar wrote:

> Malware finds a way.  ...

Yep...

> ...  I realized this when a honeypot I had set up had
> ended up with a BIOS-erasing file infector on an open share.  A virus
> that never should have been able to make it between hosts.  It had
> attached itself to a copy of Nimda.

Whoops!

Did you find it because it triggered its payload?

That would hurt...


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald