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2004-08-26 23:26:00 |
cnet (news.com.com ge/2100-1002_3-5323990.html?tag=nefd.top) reports that a group of security researchers discovered that spyware makers are using a flaw in the way the multimedia software loads graphical themes, or skins, to infect PCs with their wares. The digital music player--made by America Online subsidiary Nullsoft, whose informal mascot is the llama--improperly allows the skin files to run programs. (copied from http://www.warp2search.net/)
"A malicious Web site using a specially crafted Winamp skin to place and execute arbitrary programs could take control of a victim's computer" |
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