[SengirV]

And yet a new Microsoft ONLY problem rears it's ugly head today - http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/02/14/daily42.html

But as long as these morons say M$ is safer. What a friggen joke.

[rit]

I read the news story and it is a bit misleading. For years now, spammers have combed the likes of google and others for email addresses. In 2001-2002, a princeton based company had posted reports showing the email Ids that they had found from various web sites and when challenged, showed the same info was available from Google.

Anyhow, the point is that the worm is an old worm and the only new twists is that it gets an initial email address from a search engine. It sends the worm as an undelivered email message and the user has to open up the attachment in order to infect the machine.

BTW, I saw the Richard Clark comment on how insecure Microsoft Windows products are. Interesting that he made the quote at the same conf as the researchers saying MS operating systems are more secure then Linux.