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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability

by dimon | March 30, 2007 at 06:00 am

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Users who work with the latest versions of Windows should be aware that
they are at a great risk of being attacked by hackers. This statement
was made by Microsoft's
officials. There is a certain vulnerability in the operating system
that can affect all recent versions of Windows, this includes Vista.
In a security advisory the company's representatives stated that
Windows' software is flawed in a way it operates with its animated
cursors.

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Actual News Geezer

at 06:27 on March 30th, 2007

Dimon thanks for this.

I followed your link but could find nothing more - can you please update this article with an explanation of the threat, and provide links to credible authorities? many thanks - this is an important issue for computer users.

voodooVince

at 06:57 on March 30th, 2007

This affects Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista.

Here is a link to the page on secunia: http://secunia.com/advisories/24659/

and MS: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935423.mspx

from Slashdot: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/30/1311247

yul3452

at 08:49 on March 30th, 2007

I am posting a link to SANS Internet Storm Center which tracks all sorts of vulnerability and malware internet wide.
They have a diary that contains all sorts of stuff including a new Vista e-mail vulnerability. This is really surprising since the *xploit uses plaintext as dropper for a downloader program...

Here is the link on the cursor vulnerability first discovered by McAfee:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html