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Date: Thu May 18 00:26:59 2006
From: juha-matti.laurio at netti.fi (Juha-Matti Laurio)
Subject: ThreatCon at Normal level now - Was: MS06-019 -
 How long before this develops into a self propagating email worm

ThreatCon meter is at basic, Normal level now. People at Symantec had their meter at Level 2/4 since May 11th.
ISS's AlertCon went to level 1/4 on Monday.

- Juha-Matti

> 
> On Thursday morning (local time in Finland) Symantec ThreatCon is at ('Elevated') Level 2 now:
> 
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/threatcon/learnabout.html
> 
> including details about the role of MS06-019.
> 
> - Juha-Matti
> 
> > 
> > All,
> > 
> > I have read the Microsoft advisory and the alarm bells started to
> > whistle ;)
> > 
> > As fas a I can read this open the door to fully self propagating
> > email worms with whatever payload you desire.
> > 
> > Yet, sans.org, symantec and
> > us-cert.gov still have their threat levels on 1.
> > 
> > What am I missing, surely
> > this superseeds the IE7 0-day action (sorry couldn't resist).
> > 
> > Schanulleke