By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews April 11, 2007, 1:29 PM Even if today's most prominent malicious software writers aren't particularly clever - waiting until security engineers discover another Windows problem then going after it with a "zero-day exploit" - engineers at McAfee's Avert Labs believe they may actually be learning about how to use timing to maximize their impact on the public. The team is saying they believe malicious writers now tend to release their code on Microsoft's regular Patch Tuesday, in order to maximize its window of opportunity to exploit systems before the next month's Patch Tuesday rolls around. More here: http://www.betanews.com/article/McAfee_Warns_of_ZeroDay_Rash_in_Wake_of_Patch_Tuesday/1176311285 -- John Durham Site http://modecideas.com Server hosted on Ubuntu 4.10 Good advice is like good paint. It only works when applied. -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.