[Sheflug] Re: Microsoft patches

[Barrie Bremner <baz-sheflug [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> Chris
    >> Is it just me or is there a spate of Microsoft e-mails going
    >> round with "the latest patch" as an attachment.  I'm just
    >> deleting them.  Does anyone know what they are?  Trojan?
    >> Virus?  Worm?

    Richard> Goes something like this..

    Richard> Verisign introduce an "improvement" to the internet thus
    Richard> creating a hole in the anti-spam network.  New winduhs
    Richard> virus/worm comes along.  No one knows that they have been
    Richard> infected.  Much MS strangeness.

Eh?

Verisign added a wildcard to .net/.com TLDs (there are already several
other TLDs which are wildcarded). I agree this is pretty stupid.

Verisign's snafu only affects DNS based anti-spam tests and not all
sites run network tests (RBLs, DNS etc) anyway.

Anyone worth their salt can patch a DNS server to ignore the wildcard
DNS entries and carry on as normal.

Either way, virii aren't spam. Virus checkers will work as normal.

Cheers,

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
baz-sheflug [at] barriebremner.com      http://barriebremner.com/


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