Microsoft warns of a new security risk
After only a few days of issuing a patch for zero-day errors in Power Points, Microsoft announced a new vulnerability to the program.
In his blog, Mr. Alexandra Huft, Microsoft's security program manager has issued a warning about the dangerous code spread widely on the Internet and the risk is entirely possible about a new attack of hackers
thanks to these codes. With these code, hackers can completely take control of users' computers by tricking them into activating a powerpoint file containing malicious code.
More worrisome, from the surveys of security company Secunia, these codes still affect the patched Windows systems. Powerpoints affected versions are 2000, 2002, and 2003. Secunia also classified this vulnerability in a very serious category, and issued a warning message to all computer users, still very cautious with the files. PowerPoints received from the Internet.
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