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Gone are the old days of sensational but harmless compromisses

Microsoft's emergency response team is on worm watch, the company said.

I feel very safe now that the MS team is on Red-Alert for the ... worms.


"We have not seen signs of widespread malicious activity so far. But be assured that, like we always do, we've got our emergency response process teams watching for any possible malicious activity," Christopher Budd, security program manager at Microsoft, wrote on the Microsoft blog Wednesday.

They ordered in pizza + dr pepper and hunkered down in the MS bunkers keeping a watchful eye for the worm to come by ...


Some security experts, however, don't expect a high-profile worm attack. "A fully automated 'big bang' type worm is increasingly unlikely in an Internet world where under-the-radar attacks take place for criminal gain," said Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at security company iDefense.

Instead, Dunham predicts that we will see Trojan horses and semi-automated malicious code attacks that exploit the Windows flaw in such a way that attackers can profit.

"Hacker activity has been light for the MS06-040 exploitation to date but will likely increase with the advent of this coming weekend," Dunham said, adding that all computers connected to the Internet should be patched as soon as possible.

Long gone are the days of the sensational and harmless high profile compromises. Now the real creeps are staying in low profile attacks (ofcourse) and try to either cash in the victims who let their personal data unprotected or maybe even get involved in something more dangerours and ideed more dissastrous.

Go ahead, dear good people: use the MS windows which cannot be corrected apparently....

But, wait a minute: Vista is comming, it's been around the corner (for FIVE YEARS now ) so now people have ALL the "GOOD" reasons to switch to it

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