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Subject: Re: [NF] Malicious Virus proof-of-concept ActiveSyncs from WindowsPC toWindows PDA
Author: Ed Leafe
Posted: 2006/02/28 11:31:30
 
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On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:

> So this is bad, and the recent Mac OSX proof-of-concept worm was
> somehow
> not bad, right? ;)

The difference is in virulence. The worm required an elaborate
series of steps to infect a machine, making it much less critical.
The Safari vulnerability, in which "safe" files were opened by
default, was much, much worse.


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