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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

Security Best Practices, Breaking News, & Updates

New Variant of ANI exploit emerges

Most likely AV protection will be forthcoming, however most importantly the MS07-017 patch should be promptly applied

New Variant of ANI exploit emerges
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2648

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What a shocker - malware authors are playing cat 'n' mouse with antivirus signatures.

Roger Chiu of Malware-Test Lab submitted a .ani file observed in the wild that was not detected as malicious by any popular antivirus tools. As with many other ANI attacks, this was presented as a CURSOR object in a DIV element on a compromised web site