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Article: Zotob turns to email attack.(Security News)
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- Software World
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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SophosLabs are warning computer users that hackers have released more worms onto the internet that exploit the recently discovered security vulnerability in Microsofts software.
The Zotob-C and Tilebot-F worms are following in the wake of the Zotob-A and Zotob-B worms that wm let loose on the internet recently All of these worms take advantage of the Microsoft security MS05-039 Plug and Play vulnerability which the company announced recently. Sophos warns that there is a danger many computer users may not have had the time to patch against the serious security hole. The new version of Zotob goes one step further than its predecessors, by trying to spread via email rather ...
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