MSN Opens Door to Hackers
Poster: Subjugation
Posted on May 19, 2002 at 3:41:20 AM
Many who have heard about a serious bug in Microsoft's "MSN Chat" ActiveX control have ignored the warnings because they don't use Microsoft's instant messaging services. But alas, you don't need to be a user of MSN Chat to have your computer taken over via this recently disclosed security vulnerability. All you must do is use Microsoft Internet Explorer to visit one specially crafted Web page, and your system may be history. Use MSN? Read this story.