Re: ThreatCon at Normal level now - Was: MS06-019 - How long before this develops into a self propagating email worm

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ahh yes we should all pay attention and trust a "threat meter" 
designed to sell products.

On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:26:51 -0700 Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-
matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
> ThreatCon meter is at basic, Normal level now. People at Symantec 
> had their meter at Level 2/4 since May 11th.
> ISS's AlertCon went to level 1/4 on Monday.
>
> - Juha-Matti
>
> > On Thursday morning (local time in Finland) Symantec ThreatCon 
> is at ('Elevated') Level 2 now:
> > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/threatcon/learnabout.html
> >
> > including details about the role of MS06-019.
> >
> > - Juha-Matti
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I have read the Microsoft advisory and the alarm bells started 

> to
> > > whistle ;)
> > >
> > > As fas a I can read this open the door to fully self 
> propagating
> > > email worms with whatever payload you desire.
> > >
> > > Yet, sans.org, symantec and
> > > us-cert.gov still have their threat levels on 1.
> > >
> > > What am I missing, surely
> > > this superseeds the IE7 0-day action (sorry couldn't resist).
> > >
> > > Schanulleke
>
>
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