Re: MS06-019 - How long before this develops into a self propagating email worm

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

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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