Tom,

I read this on CNet's news site. Apparently some hackers broke into an open source 
site that provides a popular network monitoring tool. The hackers modified the source 
code to include some spyware features and then were able to post the code to the site 
so that visitors downloading this tool would unknowingly allow themselves to be spied 
upon.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-965916.html

I wonder if M$ had a similar issue but isn't divulging that information.

 - Todd

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Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Is MS Windows Update spreading W95/Spaces.gen
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I got a critical update notification today on my main computer
and ran it (with virus scanner active :)

It had me install MS's system scanner again and notified me
that my critical update notifier needed updating which I did.

No virus warnings this time, so maybe they have corrected
the problem.  At any rate, I'll never go there again without
my virus scanner completely up-to-date and running. ;-)

Cheers,
Tom

At 10:39 AM 11/15/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Tom and all,
>
>This might explain why I, too, have been struggling for days (with phone
>hours to my advice line) to re-install and re-install and re-master!    I
>mistakenly did the update Tom describes and met a series of problems each
>time I thought I'd worked through.
>
>Michael, what is the way to the MS security bulletin pages?   I have a
>programme that says it won't work on anything lesser thatn IE 5.5.
>
>Joseph


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