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TrendMicro Backtracks On Trojan For MS
John Stith
Staff Writer
2005-11-14
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Security company TrendMicro backtracked on a new Trojan they said they discovered last week that played upon new vulnerabilities in Windows. Microsoft announced the graphics vulnerabilities during the monthly patch update last week, namely patch MS05-053.
Apparently, in their overzealousness, TrendMicro didn't research the Trojan sufficiently and extrapolated more than actually occurred. Their initial claim was the Trojan crashed the explore.exe program through the GUI shell.
In actuality, the program only causes a crash in the GUI shell with Windows for Windows XP before the Service Pack 1 update back in 2002 and for Windows 2000 systems for Service Pack 4.
Techworld quoted TrendMicro chief technologist Raimund Genes, "Given the time we needed to react to this, we didn't analyze it thoroughly. We wanted to do something fast and perhaps we didn't spend sufficient time on it."
As several have pointed out, this would've been darn near record time to hit Microsoft's announced vulnerabilities, particularly as people worry about the time when it takes less than 24 hours to hook into a vulnerability.
At this point, TrendMicro is working with Microsoft to determine the extent of the virus and more importantly, does it infect other systems other than mentioned above.
About the Author:
John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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