“A few days ago the rumours started: every currently-supported version of Windows — that’s -98 to -XP and everything in between — can be rooted by a novel means which MS regarded as a mystery. It seemed to be an automated, malicious bot which makes it possible to control the target machine via IRC, but it seemed not to replicate itself as a worm would do. Exactly how it finds its way onto the victim’s box was not known.”
Link: theregister.co.uk
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