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Zero-day holiday
Kelly Martin, 2006-01-04

A few hundred million Windows XP machines lay vulnerable on the Web today, a week after a zero-day exploit was discovered. Meanwhile, new approaches and ideas from the academic world - that focus exclusively on children - may give us hope for the future after all.

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Re: incorrect 2006-01-05
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There's one important point that you seem to be deliberately ignoring here; Blaster was a self propagating worm. What we're talking about here is a vulnerability with little/no scope for automatic propagation. User interaction is required for almost every infection vector.

Once a user's PC is com...

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