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Monday, April 2, 2007
Warning - Serious new hack attack
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you get an e-mail that suggests a nifty way to modify the cursor that appears on your PC’s screen, just trash that e-mail before it trashes your computer.
The e-mail directs you to a Web site to get the new cursor. Don’t go or you’ll be sorry.
This new hack is directed at Microsoft’s new Vista as well as some versions of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The malicious Web page downloads a program that exploits a bug in the computer code for the cursor. Once you go to the Web page, you’re sunk - the hacker can get into your computer remotely.
Here’s a link to a story that explains the problem in more detail.
I’m also linking to an AP story about the problem here
Folks this could be a serious problem - so please be careful. There are so many of these threats reported that it’s easy to shrug one off. I hope I’m wrong but I think this one could be a big problem.
Also note that the FireFox browser does not seem to have the same vulnerability - but even if you use FireFox or another browser it would be foolish to rely on that.
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