Oh what a tangled web we weave:
“Chicago (IL) - Antivirus specialist F-Secure today published a note that it has sighted the first virus models that aim at Microsoft’s next generation operating system “Vista”, formerly code-named Longhorn.”
Full article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050804_155825.html
Just who the heck are these people that write viruses anyway?! Don’t they have anything better to do with their lives? (Just curious, maybe they don’t?! :
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Apparently they have nothing better to do. Starfighter, the article said nothing about a detection (deffinition/engine update) for the scripts, do you know if F-Secure (or any AV vendor) has released a update for them?
disregard my previous post I found this on F-Secures site:
The controversy around the "Danom" MSH/Monad virus family and whether it is the first virus for Windows Vista or not is clearing up.Last night Microsoft Security Response Center’s Blog wrote - and I quote: “Monad will not be included in the final version of Windows Vista”.
This is the first time Microsoft in any official way announced that Monad will not be in the release version of Windows Vista (until this there were just various rumors). So I mailed Stephen Toulouse who wrote the blog entry. And he confirmed: “The current plan of record is that it won’t be in Windows Vista”.
So that’s it. The Danom viruses will not run in the default Windows Vista. They are not Windows Vista viruses.
I also read that the scripts he wrote are only a script which copies itself in over other script parts. But this script is not a virus and not anything like that, because it only copies itself about anything, but the script not starting itself to run at windows.
At the german news site www.heise.de they wrote, that it is a little bit excessive to speak from a virus in that case.
source: (ger) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/62473&words=Virus%20Vista