AV products may be suseptible to DoS Exploit

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AV products may be suseptible to DoS Exploit

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harrywaldron View Member Profile	Jun 22 2004, 02:27 PM Post #1
Security Reporter Group: News Reporters Posts: 491 Joined: 10-April 04 From: Roanoke, Virginia Member No.: 107	A worm or virus, based on this DoS exploit could indeed create a performance lockup where users may need to power off or reboot (thus looking information they were trying to process). AV products may be suseptible to DoS Exploit http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ful...04-06/0374.html This post has been edited by harrywaldron: Jun 22 2004, 02:31 PM -------------------- Microsoft Security Journal

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