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Pop-up toolbar spreads via IE flaws

 June 9, 2004 Criminal charges could result for those who use Explorer vulnerabilities to trigger pop-up ads on PCs. TAGS: adware, victim, Stephen Toulouse, flaw, antivirus company, Microsoft Internet Explorer, toolbar, vulnerability, trojan horse, researcher, antivirus, security, Symantec Corp., analysis, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

Zombie tool makes use of Windows, antivirus flaws

 November 30, 2006 Bot software that turns PCs into zombies spreads via holes in Symantec and Microsoft products. TAGS: SpyBot, bot, Symantec Corp., antivirus, variant, flaw, adware, spyware, Microsoft Corp., security, PC, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft: No flaw in Media Player

 January 14, 2005 Trojan horses are piggybacking on an antipiracy feature in Media Player, a security firm claims. But Microsoft denies it's a flaw. TAGS: Overpeer, Panda Software, Ben Edelman, Microsoft Windows Media Player, rights-management, spyware, digital-rights management, antipiracy, media player, Windows Media, flaw, trojan horse, adware, P2P, security, Microsoft Corp.
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