Re: 70 million computers are using Windows 98rightnow

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 7/13/06, Castigliola, Angelo <ACastigliola () unumprovident com> wrote:
> >This doesn't mean that W98 is secure. On Secunia's site the latest
> >(corrected) vulnerability is dated 20060613, less than 1 month ago, and
> >tomorrow someone could find a new one that won't be corrected.
>
> Sure, that could happen but seeing how there are only two known exploits
> published in 2006 for Windows 98 I think it is safe to say that the risk
> is fairly low. Why should Microsoft spend millions of dollars to operate
> a team to update Windows 98 when there was such a low volume of exploits
> for Windows 98 with very little details regarding the specifics of the
> exploit and no known code has been released to exploit these
> vulnerabilities?
>
> >You don't need 2000 vulnerability. It's enough only one exploit to
> >create a 70 millions PC zombi net.
>
> I'd like to see someone discus the plan of execution of exactly how a
> hacker would go about compromising 70 million Windows 98 computers.


Put the exploit on your myspace account ;-)

http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/07/myspace_moves_into_1_position.html

-JP

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