> Can you show me an instance where it has been exploited, or > demonstrate how this is exploited? If not, why do you know > that it is highly important?
No. > I wish people would stop being chicken little at every small > opportunity. Since I was writing that email to many of my friends who are not in the computer industry as well to some who are, I felt that I had to be a little aggressive in my advice to them. I don't think most people not in the field have a very strong grip on the fact that their computer ennvironments are incredibly insecure and vulnerable to malicious foreign code. I personally am tired of having my bandwidth at home and at the office consumed by Code Red and Nimda and SirCam (still!), simply because most people with computers don't know how vulnerable they are and don't know how to defend themselves. This particular vulnerability I adverted to the patch for is so laughably easy to exploit that it will be exploited, and soon, I have no doubt. If you have any sense at all, you'll be warning everyone you know with a computer, especially those who don't know very much about them, in the strongest possible terms to patch this vulnerability and to keep abreast of security updates and patches in the future, especially for M$ products. I didn't have the time or inclination to write separate emails to my computer-savvy and to my computer-clueless friends respectively. I apologize if I offended your tough, knowledgeable sensibilities by seeming to suggest that you, Grand Wizard Brandon, may have anything to fear from any hacker anywhere in the world. E _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
