hackfix-virusnews: Poison applet could wipe Windows PCs (interesting article)
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- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:57:13 -0400
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Poison applet could wipe Windows PCs
By John Leyden
Posted: 10/04/2003 at 16:41 GMT
A brace of Microsoft security vulns pose risks for
both home users and corporates.
The more serious problem, involving Microsoft's
virtual machine (Microsoft VM), which enables Java
programs to run on Microsoft Windows, provides a
mechanism for attackers to run amok on Windows PCs.
Microsoft has released a fix designed to address the
problem, which affects users of Windows 98, NT 4,
Windows 2000, XP and Windows Me.
Attacks including "changing data, loading and running
programs, and reformatting the hard disk", might be
possible, according to the low-fat version of
Microsoft's alert.
Read more here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30199.html
=A9 The Register.
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