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Friday, December 21, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000100978dec21.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology Computers: Files can be erased from XP PCs while online. Software 'patch' is available on the company's Web site. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-059.asp By CHARLES PILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITER SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. announced on Thursday that its flagship Windows XP operating system has a major security flaw that allows hackers to erase files from--or take control of--Internet-connected computers. More than 7 million XP users also face the prospect of their PCs being turned into "zombies," secretly directed by hackers to attack other computers. "This is a serious vulnerability," said Scott Culp, manager of Microsoft's security response center. Security experts called the vulnerability particularly glaring--and galling, given Microsoft's touting of the XP operating system as among its most secure....
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