Can Windows kill the Internet?

[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]

“I’ve long thought that someday Windows security
problems could end up fouling up the Internet for everyone. That
day may be arriving.

“That’s not just me being paranoid about Windows. That’s the ISC
(Internet Storm Center), the group that tracks the overall health
of the Internet, wondering whether the newly discovered ‘LNK”
exploit might be used to slam the brakes on the Internet’s
high-speed traffic.

“According to Lenny Zeltser, an ISC security consultant, the ISC
has “decided to raise the Infocon level to Yellow to increase
awareness of the recent LNK vulnerabilityand to help preempt a
major issue resulting from its exploitation. Although we have not
observed the vulnerability exploited beyond the original targeted
attacks, we believe wide-scale exploitation is only a matter of
time. The proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available, and the
issue is not easy to fix until Microsoft issues a patch.
Furthermore, anti-virus tools’ ability to detect generic versions
of the exploit have not been very effective so far.””

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