Thanks Fido of LITTLEWHITEDOG.COM for the heads up on this one.
A little more than a week ago, LITTLEWHITEDOG.COM gave the world a glimpse into the world of USB 2.0 with the posting a driver / patch that would enable USB 2.0 on Windows XP. Today they've taken things one step further by posting an updated USB 2.0 driver that not only improves USB 2.0 support in Windows XP, but also adds USB 2.0 support to Windows 2000.
If you are interested to know more and download the patch please visit their main page to do so.
News source: LITTLEWHITEDOG.COM
A little more than a week ago, LITTLEWHITEDOG.COM gave the world a glimpse into the world of USB 2.0 with the posting a driver / patch that would enable USB 2.0 on Windows XP. Today they've taken things one step further by posting an updated USB 2.0 driver that not only improves USB 2.0 support in Windows XP, but also adds USB 2.0 support to Windows 2000.
If you are interested to know more and download the patch please visit their main page to do so.
News source: LITTLEWHITEDOG.COM
Microsoft's Goodhew maintained that W32.Donut is irrelevant. The virus, he said, was written using Windows code and is very similar to one that came out last March called W32.Winux. The Donut virus also could be written to infect other file types, he added.
But "this virus itself is a new virus," Symantec's Yamamura said, even though only a small part of it--the part that targets .Net files--was written in the .Net programming language.
Virus researcher Rob Rosenberger, editor of virus information site VMyths.com, agrees with Microsoft's position. He said the virus is standard and only used a token amount of the .Net language, Microsoft Intermediate Language, or MSIL.
"It's like using the term 'woman' to describe a male cross-dresser," Rosenberger said.
The virus, which affects computers running Windows 2000 and XP, was not detected by antivirus software until vendors included a definition, or fingerprint, for it in their products this week, said Vincent Gullotto, senior research director for Network Associates' Antivirus Research Team.
Microsoft and the antivirus vendors agreed that the risk from the virus is extremely low because so few people have .Net software installed on their computers and because the virus can not spread itself.
In addition, the .Net software has mechanisms that would prevent it from running on a system, Goodhew said.
"Not only is there very little chance that it will ever propagate, but it also does no damage" to the system, Goodhew said.
So far, software developers are the only ones using .Net technology, under a standard beta, or test, program.
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