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Ron
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
I know the above operating systems include lots of Girder users and this seems to be an extremely nasty vunerability so I'll give you a warning about it. This flaw will allow hackers to gain access over the internet to your computer please apply the patch.

The bugfix at microsoft dot com
http://microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-059.asp

Information in te Washington post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7050-2001Dec20.html

And while I am at it, there is _again_ :sad: a new worm going around. So pleople with outlook please do me and the rest of the internet a favour and check this article about how you can prevent it from infecting your computer and flooding my emailbox with virus emails ( don't worry my email client is not affected by them, but I am annoyed by these emails )

Datafellows information
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/welyah.shtml

Microsoft dot com bug fix
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/q290108/default.asp


of course you could also just switch email clients :grin: I know a good one.

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