30 Jul 12 17:46, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:


 ml>> rogue as in basically a trojan... in other words, you visit a site
 ml>> and there's content there you (think) you want to see but the site
 ml>> tells you you need to update your flash or pdf reader or video codec
 ml>> and offers the supposed update to you... so you download it and the
 ml>> infestation ensues...

 RW>> MES would stop such an incident in an instant. That is, if it got
 RW>> past FF.

 ml> and /only/ if MES was able to detect it... this can only happen after
 ml> someone has detected it and created detection rules for it...

Which happens everyday...MES updates itself each day with no
inter-action by the sysop...

 ml>> granted, i used the term "browser plugin" but i was
meaning all of
 ml>> the above... it may have been a fake codec... i don't know where
 ml>> roger goes or what his level of knowledge of the software on his
 ml>> machine is or his gullibility factor in situations like that...

 ml>> here's another example... what whould you do if you found a USB
 ml>> stick laying on the ground outside your home or office?

 RW>> Take it to Walmart and insert it into their photocopy machine. Look
 RW>> at all the dirty pictures and then leave it there for someone else
 RW>> to find.

 ml> ROTFL!!

Thought you'd get a kick out of that.


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