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As of Dec 27 or so, when it became more or less public knowledge courtesy of a semi-anonymous post on a public mailing list, this was true. However, forensics have discovered that the exploit was in active use at least since the first week of December. For a minimum of three to four weeks, it was in circulation in the hacking underground, and was in use to drop exploits on computers.

There are plenty out there that are never released, but instead are quietly sold and traded amongst a group whose interest is not publicity, but profit.

i wasnt but i know a few people who were

Yeah I work in tech support and beleive me loads of people were affected by this exploit

I don't know of anyone one who was effected. As a percentage I think it was very small, but that is no comfort to those who were infected.

I wasn't affected.

i went to $insert crack site here$ for a cd crack for an old game i was reinstalling. and firefox kept asking if i wanted to download .WMF instead of the zipped crack and i told it no, like normal cuz they usually have activex spyware. then i went back cause they updated the game and i needed the crack for the newer version, but instead of fox i used IE and it didnt ask, it just automatically downloaded and ran the WMF file. first it installed a file onto C: with 5 exe files inside it and ran it. then it copied to system32 and put in registry entires to run on the next reboot, and then disabled taskmanager. i disconnected immeditalty from the net and cleaned it up and was back on in just a few minutes.

I still have "YOUR COMPUTER MAY CONTAIN SPYWARE" plastered on my desktop and I can't get rid of it because the wallpaper is locked.

Fscking thing made me spend a good 4 hours cleaning up after it and my computer is still not running like normal.

lol