Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution

Re:Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution by dewey on Sunday June 07, 2020 @07:43AM (#23446671)

> How would a virus scan help here?

Usually that means that the IP you are connecting from got somehow flagged as an originator of malicious attacks. Like if the virus on your computer does automated requests (click fraud, scraping, DoS,...) to other IPs that are monitored by them.

Of course this is probably mostly useless especially if you are on a dynamic IP but that's where it's coming from.

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Re:Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution by judge2020 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:45AM (#23446948)

this line of text was more appropriate when this text only showed up when CF had a low "trust score" for you; now website owners have much more control and can trigger a captcha for almost any reason that doesn't necessarily mean your network is infected (eg. A website owner triggering captchas on a page of their website once they have a heavy increase of traffic)

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Re:Two vulnerabilities in Zoom could lead to code execution by dewey on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:59AM (#23447012)

I was only answering to the part about why they suggest virus scan, not the usage of captchas in general. Of course you are right in regards to captchas in general.

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