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[News] PowerPoint Users Get Pwned

  • Subject: [News] PowerPoint Users Get Pwned
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:42:57 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
  • User-agent: KNode/0.9.0
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1130506
Poisoned PowerPoint attacks users

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| Microsoft is warning Windows users about a virus that takes over
| PCs via the popular PowerPoint program.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The virus is known to be hitting Windows users in Asia
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        http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5195838.stm

This virus spreads through SPAM, which is sent from compromised Windows
boxes. So there's a cycle here. Pwn -> SPAM -> Pwn -> SPAM...

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