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" IBM distributes virus-laden USB keys at security conference

IBM has been left with egg on its face after it distributed virus-laden USB keys to attendees at Australia's biggest computer security conference.

Delegates of the AusCERT conference, held over the past week
at the Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast, "

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/securi ... -w1gv.html

Chris.

Well, if it's a security conference, none of the people who obtained those usb drives should have been dumb enough to blindly plug them into a Windows computer with autorun enabled.

Personally, I would be expecting something like that to happen as a joke to keep everybody on their toes. As my buddy Mad-Eye Moody always said, "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"

Pizzasgood wrote:Well, if it's a security conference, none of the people who obtained those usb drives should have been dumb enough to blindly plug them into a Windows computer with autorun enabled.

well, they were australians, after all . . .

Now let us be nice. After all, Barry K. is an ausey also!
And after running various versions of Puppy linux for 10 years+ I have never had a PC infection I can attribute to Puppy.
That includes plugging in a USB picture card that had a built in virus!
My virus checker in windows caught it.
Puppy did not allow it the base it needed to execute.

And after running various versions of Puppy Linux for 10 years+

You have been using Puppy for longer than its existence.
You must be an ozmonaut? Do you know Dr Who?

Well it seemed like 10 years. I started with Puppy 2.14.

Hey don't be hard on 8-bit. I know someone from Oregon and they say that if you have a short time to live then move to Oregon because every day is a freaking eternity there.

What's amazing is that after all these years Autorun is STILL the WIndows default for USBs, CDs, DVDs, etc. MS picks ease-of-use over security every time..... still.

" well, they were australians, after all . . . "

As soon as I can pass my I.Q. test I'm going to sue Bugman.

Chris.

8-bit wrote:Well it seemed like 10 years. I started with Puppy 2.14.

Well, if you're really running 8-bit...

I recently found an old relic -- a Puppy 0.9.9 CD that I had burned...

benali72 wrote:What's amazing is that after all these years Autorun is STILL the WIndows default for USBs, CDs, DVDs, etc. MS picks ease-of-use over security every time..... still.

What is even more amazing is how hard it is to turn it off for everything (Windows has a tendency to forget that you had turned it off, also).