LXer: Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows security flaw

LXer · 12-13-2005, 08:01 PM

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday warned users of its Windows operating system of a "critical" security flaw in its software that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer. The world's largest software maker issued a patch to fix the problem as part of its monthly security bulletin. The problem mainly affects the Windows operating system and Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. Computer security experts and Microsoft urged users to download and install the patch available at www.microsoft.com/security. Microsoft said the vulnerability exists in its Internet Explorer Web browser, which an attacker could exploit to take over a PC by running software code after luring users to malicious Web pages. 

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pddm · 12-13-2005, 08:33 PM

I thought this was a Linux forum!?

alred · 12-13-2005, 09:22 PM

>> I thought this was a Linux forum!?

dont be too sure about that ... i mean in home or corporate enviroments ... sadly somehow we still need to have microsoft systems among the networking systems , so i guess it would be great if users are aware of microsoft windows exploits cause it a lot easier to bring down *nix if we sit and wait patiently in ms machines ...

so ... what should we do with these facts ??

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