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[News] 14 vulnerabilities in Windows, Clippy Opens Door to Hijackers

Microsoft and the Clippy of death

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| 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.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=CFE81578-B0A5-42DA-9567-29E6BE17BB81


Related:

Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| 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.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/

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