I wouldn't be too quick to blame solely MS and the AV vendors, there's a lot of blame to go around. Conficker has multiple infection vectors.
So far I've heard of: a) Exploiting MS08-067 b) Brute-forcing the SAM and ADMIN$ share on remote machines c) and now apparently Autorun Apparently not enough people adhere to LUA. Glen Johnson wrote: > I can definitely confirm that a patched machine can get infected from an > infected flash drive. -- Phil Brutsche [email protected] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
