FYI...

- http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive...n-the-wild.aspx
14 May 09 - "... use Windows with a regular user account, in order to avoid most of the malware actions that require admin rights (install rootkits, modify system files, registry or services,…) . However it’s really important to keep our system updated. You should install Windows updates every month because even if your default Windows user hasn’t got admin privileges, you could still have problems if you execute a malware... With this piece of code, if the system hasn’t been updated with the MS08-066* patch, the malware would be able to do whatever it wants..."
* http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/ms08-066.mspx
Vuln in the MS Ancillary Function Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (956803)
... Why was this security bulletin revised on January 13, 2009?
Microsoft revised this security bulletin to announce a detection change for this security update. As a result of the correction, the detection offers the security update to affected systems that previously were not offered this security update....
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956803

(More detail available at the PandaLabs URL above.)



This post has been edited by AplusWebMaster: May 15 2009, 08:50 PM