__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 13 April 2007 16:40 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jeanette Russo
> <jrusso2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:19:00 -0700
> <EECTh.77682$mJ1.32528@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Microsoft and the Clippy of death
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Microsoft has issued five new critical security bulletins, offering
>>> | patches for 14 vulnerabilities in Windows products, including one
>>> | that could allow the much-derided Clippy software assistant to take
>>> | full control of a PC on behalf of a bad guy.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=CFE81578-B0A5-42DA-9567-29E6BE17BB81
>>>
>>>
>>> Related:
>>>
>>> Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
>>> | 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
>>> | the BBC reports.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
>>
>> I never did trust that stupid talking paper clip
>>
>> Jeanette
>
> Could be worse. They could have used Scuzzo the Rat. ;-)
Or Theo.
No, I kid, I kid. :-)
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