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7th September 2002 Archive

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  • MS flips on new ‘global’ Windows remote-root vuln

    Thanks for monitoring that

    A few days ago the rumours started: every currently-supported version of Windows -- that's -98 to -XP and everything in between -- can be rooted by a novel means which MS regarded as a mystery. It seemed to be an automated, malicious bot which makes it possible to control the target machine via IRC, but it seemed not to …

    Software 7 Sep 2002, 10:19

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