Microsoft issued an advisory last week – Microsoft Security Advisory (969136) “Vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution” – that “could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file.” The advisory uses very similar language to Microsoft’s recent advisory on an Excel vulnerability, referring to “only…limited and
We all have recently endured a week or so of extensive media hype about a worm called “Conficker”. Phrases such as “One of the worst viruses ever” and other such nonsense were tossed around like promises at a political rally, with about the same level of honesty and accuracy, perhaps even less. Conficker was already
When I write about Mac issues, I usually find myself abused by individuals convinced that there are no Mac viruses, never were any Mac viruses, and never could be any Mac viruses. Less advanced cases sometimes admit that there is Mac malware (and malware that isn’t Mac-specific, but can affect Mac users), but buy into
I wondered why a newsletter from “Windows Secrets” got flagged as spam. It is because they have reduced themselves to as much. Near the top of the newsletter it proclaimed: Remove the Conficker worm: register now Conficker is one of the worst viruses in history and has infected over 15 million PCs. We are offering
Good morning. Is there anyone still out there and connected? Thought so. While one or two people who comment here seem to think I’m personally responsible for developing, maintaining, and marketing ESET products (and in at least one case writing the malware as well) I’m afraid I didn’t spend April 1st crouched over a rack
I’ve tried to convince you all that you really need to watch out for all of the threats and that it really isn’t worth worrying about Conficker, but if you are still worried about Conficker we do have a knowledge base article you can peruse at http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=SOLN2209. If you apply your security patches, disable autorun,
I kept telling everyone to worry about being secure, not about Conficker. Some people listen, some don’t. So what happened over about the past 24 hours? According to ESET’s ThreatSense.Net, by about 2 PM GMT on April 1st, of the top 20 threats encountered by our users in the past 24 hours, four out of
