New Threat Demonstrates Fastest Time Between the Announcement of a Vulnerability and a Successful Mass Propagating Exploit
BEAVERTON, Ore., Aug. 16, 2005 -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), the leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management, today announced that McAfee AVERT (Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team), the world-class research division of McAfee, Inc., raised the risk assessment to High on the recently discovered W32/IRCbot.worm!MS05-039 worm, also known as IRCbot.worm!MS05-039. The worm, an Internet Relay..
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