CONFLICKER AUTOPLAY RUSE GETS TEETH INTI WINDOWS 7

Posted January 21, 2009 

VXers still ahead of the game

Social engineering autoplay tricks work on early versions of Windows 7 as well as Vista, according to tests by security researchers.

As well as spreading by exploiting a weeks-old Microsoft vulnerability, the Conficker (Downadup) worm attempts to spread across network shares and to infect removable drives, using a special malformed autorun.inf file.

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