[Am-info] Win-XP Help Center request wipes your HD!

[Fred A. Miller]

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Win-XP Help Center request wipes your HD!

"A malicious Win-XP Help Center request can easily and silently delete=20
the contents of any directory on your Windows machine, we've learned.=20
Worse, MS has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a public=20
announcement. A good sketch of the problem in English, along with a=20
harmless self-test, can be found here, thanks to Mike at=20
http://unity.skankhouse.org, who did some tinkering after noticing a=20
tip on a BBS."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27074.html

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Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
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