Re: [ISN] Microsoft security fixes infected with FunLove virus

From: Chris Wilson (chrisat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 11:51:20 PDT

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    On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, InfoSec News wrote:
    
    > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18516.html
    [snip]
    > According to a copy of the notice sent to The Register: "Microsoft
    > expects the FunLove infection period spanned approximately two weeks,
    > from Friday, April 6, 2001 to Friday, April 20, 2001."
    [snip]
    > Despite what is, by any standard, a monumental security cock-up by
    > Microsoft, Chien said the problem is likely to have a "low impact"
    > because FunLove is an older virus that almost all the security giants
    > partners and enterprise customers are likely to be protected against.
    
    So anybody who isn't an "enterprise customer" and doesn't have up-to-date
    virus infection is irrelevant from their point of view? Good thing too,
    because Joe Average is Microsoft's biggest customer, and he's gonna be mad
    as hell =)
    
    > The FunLove virus stopped production at Dell for two days in November
    > 1999 and the virus is considered a particularly nasty bug.
    
    Cheers, Chris.
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