Friday, December 16, 2005

'Dasher' Worm Squirming Through Unpatched Windows Hole

Ryan Naraine writes in eWeek:

More than two months after Microsoft Corp. issued a critical patch for a Windows 2000 worm hole, malicious hackers are successfully exploiting the vulnerability, confirming fears that patch deployment rates remain frighteningly low.

The latest network worm attack, identified by anti-virus vendors as W32/Dasher, enters through a flaw in the Microsoft Windows Distributed Transaction Coordinator that was patched in the MS05-051 bulletin released in October.

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