IP: MS strikes yet again and again at security PAY ATTENTION

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Vulnerabilities <http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/book/>@ the speed of 
>thought: Microsoft published the 
><http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp>mother of 
>all security bulletins Thursday, revealing that anyone using Internet 
>Explorer 5.01 or 5.5 on the Windows OS was subject to a vulnerability that 
>could enable an attacker to 
><http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/30/0413252.shtml>potentially run a 
>program of his or her choice on the machine of another user. "Such a 
>program," Microsoft said, "would be capable of taking any action that the 
>user himself could take on his machine, including adding, changing or 
>deleting data, communicating with web sites, or reformatting the hard drive."

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/30/0413252.shtml



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