A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

Posted Feb 20, 2013 16:24 UTC (Wed) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: A story of three kernel vulnerabilities by Trou.fr
Parent article: A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

In the late eighties/early nineties I seem to recall infected floppy disks were the main (or at least a very common) vector for virus transmission.

If people don't exchange data on usb keys as much as they used to on floppies, perhaps that wouldn't be as effective these days.

Posted Feb 20, 2013 23:59 UTC (Wed) by andrel (guest, #5166) [Link] (1 responses)

Supposedly Stuxnet was transmitted using a USB key.

Posted Feb 21, 2013 11:55 UTC (Thu) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289) [Link]

Stuxnet used a vulnerability in the Windows shell (the so-called LNK vulnerability), not in the filesystem code.

As for floppies, viruses spread mostly by running infected executables, not using vulns.