[pchelpers] News:Microsoft Vista Exploit: A Hacker Can Talk it into Destroying Your Files!

Tested and Confirmed by a Microsoft-friendly Columnist, to the Amusement
of Geeks Around the World 
By Tsu Dho Nimh
January 31, 2007

This exploit is so far into "why didn't they see it coming" terrritory
that I splorfed coffee all over my keyboard when my geekish roomate sent
me the information. Here's the news: Microsoft provided Vista with the
ability to accept voice commands. This lets you tell the computer to
open files, save files, delete files and all sorts of useful things.
What they did not provide Vista with was the ability to tell which
sounds are coming from the speakers and which sounds are coming from
your mouth into the microphone. The result? If you play a sound file
with Vista commands in it, Vista does what the sounds tell it to do.
Even if the commands are to delete all your files and empty the trash to
make sure you can't get them back

More here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/137728/microsoft_vista_exploit_a_hacker_can.html
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