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Sunday
Aug012010

Microsoft Out of Band again.

The latest .LNK "Microsoft insecurity" affects all currently supported versions of Windows and is actively being exploited. Monday at 1PM EST Microsoft will release an "out of band" patch to fix the problem. Current unprotected systems can be infected by simply viewing a .LNK file. More information can be found at the links below. This is a high priority update, make sure you do the update when its released tomorrow afternoon.

Microsoft Preps Monday Patch for Critical Windows Shortcut Exploit

Stuxnet, malicious .LNKs, ...and then there was Sality


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