Comments on: Super Bowl stadium site packed Trojan horse

Cybercrooks reprogram Dolphin Stadium Web site to load script that would attempt to exploit two Windows security holes.
Images: Stadium site gets sacked

[ppgreat]

Would IE 7 have caught this?

Or would this stuff just zip past that as well?

[kgrutz]

No.

MS07-004 also affected IE7 so, no. MS06-014 was an MDAC update so I'm not 100% certain. It might have been able to slip by IE7 if you weren't patched.

[qwerty75]

They got what they deserved

Use windows and you deserve all the headaches that come with it.

[markdoiron]

I Wish ...

I wish that articles like this wouldn't say you're protected "if you're patched". Please, be specific. What patch? I know that there are hyperlinks to older articles that may answer the question, but this is the most OBVIOUS question that begs an immediate answer.

In addition, what is this that antivirus vendors are working to provide protection? Does this mean that if one runs an AV package without other protective measures that he's going to detect this trojan infection? When did AV packages start covering trojans? That's a separate gripe, but the article appears misleading.

Please, c/net: I read you for technically accurate and complete reporting. An article like this is lacking.

--mark d.

[Macsaresafer]

How's this for specific?

You're protected if you aren't using Microsoft software.

[wbenton]

On unpatched PC's

On unpatched PC's

On unpatched PC's

It doesn't matter how many times you say it... idiots who continue to use Microsoft's Operating Systems without the latest patches deserve to be hacked and wiped out entirely.

If those PC's aren't hacked and taken out... they WILL become bots in a larger scan elsewhere.

Walt

[Jschneeky]

Mac Bashers?

How come you never see any Mac user haters on these story pages?