What? Still no Decent Viruses!

Posted by Strangely Crawling Chaos, Technology Add comments

Aug 292008

This is just a little follow up to and earlier post. Secunia, in their latest weekly summary to me, state this:

VIRUS ALERTS:

During the past week Secunia collected 215 virus descriptions from the Antivirus vendors. However, none were deemed MEDIUM risk or higher according to the Secunia assessment scale.

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

1. [SA31549] Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities 2. [SA31373] Trend Micro Products Web Management Authentication Bypass 3. [SA31575] Red Hat Update for Tampered OpenSSH Packages 4. [SA31579] Linux Kernel “rt6_fill_node()” Denial of Service
Vulnerability
5. [SA14652] Subdreamer Light Global Variables SQL Injection
Vulnerability
6. [SA31561] Xen “flask_op” Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 7. [SA31552] vBulletin Private Message Subject Script Insertion 8. [SA31559] Folder Lock Weak Password Encryption Security Issue 9. [SA30667] Novell iPrint Client ActiveX Control Multiple
Vulnerabilities
10. [SA31557] TimeTrex “interface/Login.php” Cross-Site Scripting

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Basically, the only really dodgy thing is the Red Hat Linux Server hack- which was rapidly fixed. There are still no really bad, new, viruses out there. ALL the FUD about viruses and hackers, phishing and trojans is based on old viruses, which, if people could be bothered, would all be fixed and blocked and their spread eliminated.

The solution is in the hands of big self-perpetuating monoliths like Microsoft and the vast uneducated masses with little or no computer skills and a minuscule amount of common sense.

So same old, same again then, eh?