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Standard / BORING News on MS Insecurity
``The latest virus, called Bagle.AI by some antivirus companies and Beagle.AG by others, spreads through e-mail as an attached file, which infects a user's PC when opened.''

Here we go again.... And it's only Monday.


`` The virus is extremely similar to previous versions of the program but uses a different form of compression as a way to dodge virus defenses.''

What? That's it? It is extremely similar but it can still fool the allmighty AV s/w even on ``protected'' machines? That is really boring news.


``"It really looks likes someone took the source code and changed a small number of things and then re-released it," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager for antivirus company Symantec's security response team. ''

Now we know who we can NOT trust in this `Trustworthy Computing' business: neither MS nor all the security `experts' which rush to protect people so inadequately.


I just wonder if there are still IT `professionals' who still entrust the ms platform to carry out critical tasks. Really, when is all this going to end? This is rediculous and worse it has become NOT news anynore so people apparently stopped paying attention.

-m
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And toasting Microsofts reputation. 50 billion can't stop the problems.  DonnieBoy | 07/19/04
Old News  RobertoSalazar | 07/19/04
Standard / BORING News on MS Insecurity  michael-t | 07/19/04
But it is getting attentilon, FireFox downloads are at an all time high.  DonnieBoy | 07/19/04
It shouldn't take an  michael-t | 07/19/04
Wintel = ignorant masses.  Outside T. Box | 07/20/04
Wintel = ignorant masses  charlesgoff | 07/20/04
A little sensitive aren't we???  DonnieBoy | 07/20/04
So Where's the News ???  Plain Logic | 07/19/04
Agree  CobraA1 | 07/20/04
Time to start using..  szoszon | 07/19/04
What does this have to do with MSFT?  PlatformAgnostic | 07/19/04
Everything!  Seething Ganglia | 07/19/04
You're out of date  wolf_z | 07/20/04
Wrong  Fritz001 | 07/20/04
NTFS allows setting permissions  CobraA1 | 07/20/04
Except XP and W2K can be set up that way  voska | 07/20/04
Sigh  johnnyu | 07/23/04
Do some research.. Windows is flawed by Design(TM)  Xunil_Sierutuf | 07/20/04
Form and Function  han810p@... | 07/20/04
If what you say is true,  Linux User 147560 | 07/20/04
What a bunch of FUD!  Outside T. Box | 07/20/04
Source of Information  han810p@... | 07/20/04
Not sure how Microsoft's stock is effected  voska | 07/20/04
Mike Nash MS security guru shows he cares  Squawkbox | 07/19/04
"M$hills to Base, M$hills to Base... requesting orders!"  Xunil_Sierutuf | 07/19/04
Linux Fanatics being recalled to nerd academy  PmAc_z | 07/20/04
Thanks for the prompt reporting... NOT!  BitTwiddler | 07/20/04
Does anyone know what the new "Backdoor.Trojan" is ?  BitTwiddler | 07/20/04
W32.something....  Xunil_Sierutuf | 07/20/04
Can you post more info.?  computer_man | 07/20/04
Does anyone know what the new "Backdoor.Trojan" is ?  rperry@... | 07/20/04
So many of them that I've lost count. . .  boomslang_z | 07/20/04
The Issue is not Microsoft  GEM_z | 07/20/04
Good Point  han810p@... | 07/20/04

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