On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:00 -0500, "Bill Arnold" <[email protected]> wrote: > > When our PC's are hit, it's a virus, but when Google and big companies > get > hit, it's an attack: >
What happened at Google was almost certainly trojans dropped onto systems by users opening PDFs with exploits in them, or very possibly security flaws in web server software used at Google. But they were out to specifically get Google rather than infect machines at random hence 'attack' I suppose. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
