Johannes Ullrich Quotes

This laptop will infect your systems from the inside. - Johannes Ullrich

These are the sort of problems that we typically see when patches don't cooperate well with various third-party software and some of the less used functions of Windows. - Johannes Ullrich

The vulnerability itself has been known about for a while, but it was only a problem for a denial-of-service attack that would sometimes cause IE to crash. Up until now, no one knew how to mark the code and find it in memory to execute a remote code attack. - Johannes Ullrich

The story here is if you are hit, you do have other vulnerabilities than this problem. - Johannes Ullrich

The Snort issue is more dangerous because the exploit is really simple. - Johannes Ullrich

The problem with this attack is that it is so hard to defend against for the average user. - Johannes Ullrich

The obvious thing is to apply patch MS05-051 on at least your [Windows 2000]... We do know the port 3372 scanning started in full force, likely in order to acquire target lists. If you can't patch, at least make sure port 3372 is closed. - Johannes Ullrich

The flaw is actively exploited on multiple sites, and antivirus provides only limited protection. Active use of an exploit without sufficient mitigating measures should warrant the early release of a patch, even a preliminary, not fully tested patch. - Johannes Ullrich

Particularly over the last year, anti-virus (programs) have lost a lot of their effectiveness. They are basically no longer capable of keeping up with the proliferation of new viruses. - Johannes Ullrich

My guess is that it's just serious enough that they really felt it was necessary to release it early. - Johannes Ullrich

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