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A Flaw Worse Than Melissa'
by Declan McCullagh
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21459.html
Rest of story
4:50 p.m. 26.Aug.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- A team of computer scientists has
discovered a
bug in many Microsoft Windows computers that lets
an attacker take
control of a PC by sending an email message.
The security hole, present in most copies of
Windows 95 and all
versions of Windows 98, would allow a malcontent to
conceal
malicious computer code in an email message or Web
page that can
surreptitiously modify files, reformat a hard
drive, or execute any
DOS command. A Flaw Worse Than Melissa'
by Declan McCullagh
4:50 p.m. 26.Aug.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- A team of computer scientists has
discovered a
bug in many Microsoft Windows computers that lets
an attacker take
control of a PC by sending an email message.
The security hole, present in most copies of
Windows 95 and all
versions of Windows 98, would allow a malcontent to
conceal
malicious computer code in an email message or Web
page that can
surreptitiously modify files, reformat a hard
drive, or execute any
DOS command.
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