>>Here's the quick test: Drop the .exe on the destop and double-click it. Did you get infected? Then you're not immune.
How did you get the executable? That's the point Allchin is making. The usual vector is e-mail and any Microsoft e-mail client for the last 5+ years blocks them by default. (Web mail is very popular now, but all the major ones are AV-scanned.) As Nick pointed out, there are other potential vectors for this malware, open shares and stuff like that. I suspect these are much harder to get through in Vista than in XP, even SP2. It would be interesting to gather a good collection of the vectors actually in use and compare their status in Vista to previous versions. I'll start talking to vendors about it. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
