Bot spreads using latest Windows flaw
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| Security firms reiterated advice to companies and home users to patch
| their Windows systems, after a bot program was detected last week that used
| a recently fixed flaw to compromise computers.
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| One version of the bot program runs on a compromised system as wgareg.exe
| and creates a service to run at startup called the Windows Genuine
| Advantage Registration Service, while the other variant runs as
| wgavm.exe naming itself the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation
| Monitor.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/bot_thwarts_windows_flaw/
I like the headline and the content. It says "_Windows_ flaw". Bravo, El Reg.
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