
Microsoft corp. was warned about a serious flaw in ALL versions of the popular Windows software that could allow hackers to seize control of a person's computer when victims read e-mail or vist web sites.
Microsoft assessed the porblem's urgency as critical, highest level, and urged custormers to download a free reparing patch immediately:
Http://www.microsoft.com/security
The problem involves tricking Windows into processing an unsafe code built into a web page or an e-mail address.
(some guy) confirmed that the faulty software code was created years ago.
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So I'm sure most of you people have known about this years and years ago, especially when there was that last comment I stated. But I'm just giving a heads-up to people who have no knowledge of computers. I think this thing was used in the very beginning of the hacker revolution/Windows revolution. I thought it was quite funny when they only found out about this in December 2002, when it's been used since like when Windows 98 was out..