[CoLoCo] year old Microsoft FREE PUBLIC WIFI "virus" bug

[Brandan E. Lloyd]

This was discussed on Security Now (http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm) in
episode 82, transcript here: http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-082.htm (search for
'Free wifi').  Episode download is available here:
http://media.grc.com/sn/SN-082.mp3.  Apparently there is a patch for this.
You may want to check to see if you have it.  It has something to do with
the Windows Wireless Zero Configuration.

Brandan

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:36 PM, John Edwards <eric.the.grey at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> All I can say to this is.... wow.
>
> I've seen these "free public wifi" ad-hoc networks as well, but never
> connected to them.  I'm going to have to make sure that my XP boot on my
> laptop is set to not connect to them...
>
> Thanks for this article.
>
>
> John Edwards
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know if any of you guy's have heard about this already or not,
> > but occasionally I have seen ad-hoc networks with an SSID "FREE PUBLIC
> > WIFI". I was curious, so I did a google search about them. I guess somewhere
> > someone may actually have one that works, but apparently everywhere else
> > it's a bug in the WinXP OS. I think it's really hilarious. From what the
> > article stated it's not a virus, but it's viral. Stating that it spreads
> > like a virus. Hahaha. Oh, and from what I've read Microsoft has not fixed it
> > yet. I don't know if vista does though.
> >
> >
> > http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/09/free_public_wif.html
> >
> > http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/01/ad-hoc-wifi-virus.html
> >
> >
> > -Andrew Barney
> >
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