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   nemo_outis to Marco van de Voort   
   Re: Malware Turns Delphi Software Compil   
   24 Aug 09 14:49:55   
   
   From: abc@xyz.com   
      
   Marco van de Voort  wrote in   
   news:slrnh948vh.2750.marcov@turtle.stack.nl:   
      
   > On 2009-08-23, nemo_outis  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Only 25 years from vulnerability exposure to a real world exploit?   
   >> Wow, what blinding speed!  Kinda takes your breath away. Truly those   
   >> "evil hackers" are cutting-edge devils.   
   >>   
   >> So vulnerabilty announcements are followed by exploits - whodda thunk   
   >> it?  You may as well make an trumpeting announcement for every virus   
   >> in Norton's and Mcafee's databases.   
   >>   
   >> Moreover, besides the non-newsness of it all, my post was   
   >> specifically addressed as to why neither "security experts" nor I   
   >> were surprised - it's just another run-of-the-mill exploit of a   
   >> long-known vulnerability. Script-kiddie stuff.   
   >   
   > Strictly speaking, it infects the precompiled libraries, not the   
   > compiler itself, so isn't the same as e.g. the Richie post.   
      
      
   A distinction without a difference.   
      
   Yawn!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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