Damn those animated Windows cursor

Submitted by budque on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 23:45.

http://news.com.com/Windows+cursor+patch+causing+trouble/2100-1002_3-617...

The cursor vulnerability is one of seven flaws addressed by Microsoft's Tuesday patch--three of them also affect Vista. Cybercrooks moved quickly to exploit the cursor hole. Security firm Websense has spotted hundreds of Web sites that try to use the bug to compromise PCs, as well as an e-mail spam campaign with links to the malicious sites.

For some reason, I just find

Submitted by ryan on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 13:20.

For some reason, I just find this very amusing. That a mouse cursor could be yet another avenue for hackage.

Turns out Firefox is

Submitted by ryan on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 15:47.

Turns out Firefox is vulnerable to this as well. And what's more, is Microsoft has already supplied a patch but Firefox, with a less effective auto-update feature is still well behind the curve. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6173423.html

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