full-disclosure - Re: denial-of-service vulnerability in theMicrosoft Malicious Software Removal Tool

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Message-ID: <9B9E7EA67E1B1342B2D25F3FD1B3293003921BB3@BE35.exg3.exghost.com>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 20:57:09 -0400
From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry@...ryseltzer.com>
To: <stuart@...erdelix.net>,
	<full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: denial-of-service vulnerability in
	theMicrosoft Malicious Software Removal Tool

Don't you get it? Your customers installed malware while logged in as
administrator on XP. MSRT isn't magic. From this you tell people "Don't
run Windows"?

And if your customers' apps require admin privileges and they have to
run on XP then they really can't be properly secured.

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_seltzer@...fdavis.com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/

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