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Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime

  • From: Jim Popovitch
  • Date: Tue Feb 12 16:07:50 2008 
On Feb 12, 2008 3:27 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not necessarily - it's unclear they mean "the vuln innately can't be fixed
> by a mere patch, because it's a social engineering issue", or "the vuln can't
> be fixed because the vendor has not yet shipped a patch for some reason".

... or the patch application mechanism isn't likely to be successful
against sufficiently infected machines.

-Jim P.