[THIN] Worm Breaks Speed Record from Discovery to Life
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:15:48 -0800 (PST)
Worm Breaks Speed Record from Discovery to Life
Tue Nov 9,10:51 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=575&u=/nm/20041109/wr_nm/tech_internetexplorer_virus_dc&printer=1
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A new computer worm emerged on Tuesday which broke the
speed record from the announcement of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's
Internet Explorer to a full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
Microsoft said the worm is a variant of MyDoom and that it was investigating
the threat the worm poses.
Some anti-virus companies said the new worm was different from MyDoom because
it spreads via weblinks and not e-mail attachments.
"People will receive an e-mail saying that their PayPal account has been
credited or that they are invited to watch a webcam. When they click on the
link, just by viewing a site it executes code and infects the computer," said
technical consultant Graham Cluley at Sophos Anti-Virus.
Microsoft was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later on
Tuesday, but the company could not immediately say if a patch for the new worm
would be part of it.
However, the U.S. software giant said that consumers who had installed Service
Pack 2 for Windows XP (news - web sites) were at a reduced risk.
The weakness in Internet Explorer is known as the IFRAME buffer overflow
vulnerability.
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