Rolf Rennemo, European product manager of another security company, Trend Micro, said: "Every time you have some kind of protection, you will have a new hacker. However, many of the virus vendors and security experts silicon.com spoke to yesterday...
Jacques Erasmus, a security consultant for Prevx, said: "This uses a new vulnerability on MySQL. MySpool, which runs a file called spoolcll.exe, enters MySQL servers through a SQL injection vulnerability, copies itself to the directory...
Security specialists F-Secure and Trend Micro, which develop antivirus software for handsets, claim the malicious code is proliferating. Mobile phone virus outbreaks are a small but emerging threat, security experts have said.
The vulnerability can be easily exploited in Windows XP with Service Pack 1 and 2, as well as Windows Server 2003, security experts said. A flaw in Microsoft's Windows Meta File (WMF) has spawned dozens of attacks since its discovery last week...
Microsoft is increasingly encroaching on the terrain of traditional security companies such as McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro. McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and numerous others will have antivirus software and other protection tools available...
Trend Micro has told Microsoft about the problems and has not publicly shared the vulnerability details. Security companies, including Trend Micro, are hawking software to shield phones against possible attacks.