Microsoft specialists just noticed a security vulnerability to your system.
As it turned out, the most harmless, at first glance, system service, Windows Print Spooler contains a critical vulnerability. The service itself is responsible for communication with printing devices over the network or directly connected to the computer. He is responsible for print files.
To simplify the user experience, the Protocol Point-and-Print allows you to download the printer driver directly on the computer connected to the print server. The flaw in the system, determine the drivers leads to the fact that attackers can infect all computers in a network using a fake driver, and repeatedly.
Also, it would be difficult to identify the source of infection, because anti-virus systems do not consider a printer Manager. It is realized by connecting the device posing as a printer in a local network. They may even become the laptop of the hacker. When you connect to it automatically is sent to the malicious driver.
The modern system of Microsoft is going to get the security patch that eliminates a security vulnerability. But Windows XP users will have to deal with the problem, since support for this system are no longer managed by the company.
