RE: Ten least secure programs

From: Andrew Specterman <aspecterman(at)unlimited.com>
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 11:47:51 EDT

Surely software based on P2P networks are not as secure as Outlook, IIS etc.

Take Kazaa for example - how many viruses, worms and Trojans are aimed specifically at this type of file sharing?

Andrew Specterman

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From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma@hotmail.com] Sent: 30 June 2003 23:59
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Ten least secure programs

>From: John Horn <jhorn1@security.ci.tucson.az.us>

I've since added rsh and activeX. MS word and excel are vulnerable to macro viruses but that's pretty much taken care of by using a decent virus scanner nowadays, so I didn't feel they qualified for top ten. IE didn't seem to be that much worse than any of the other browsers (except opera), and is pretty easy to secure by locking down the settings. The only big SQL-Server one I've heard of is Slammer, which is supposedly fixed now.

Chris Berry
compjma@hotmail.com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"Encrypt everything, and ask questions later."

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