Urgent: Windoze Security Flaw

[DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Go to this URL and read about it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30199.html

This flaw affects almost all flavors of Windoze. The patch was made 
available by Microsoft on April 9, and is now available on the Windows 
Update site. Install it.
The Flaw is in the virtual maching that allows Java programs to run. Any 
website you go to can cause such Java programs to be run on your machine. 
In effect, going to a malicious website which exploits this flaw will allow 
that site to take over your computer for almost any imaginable purpose. 
Below is a recap of the problem, which is clearly very serious.
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The more serious problem, involving Microsoft's virtual machine (Microsoft 
VM), which enables Java programs to run on Microsoft Windows, provides a 
mechanism for attackers to run amok on Windows PCs. Microsoft has released 
a fix designed to address the problem, which affects users of Windows 98, 
NT 4, Windows 2000, XP and Windows Me.

Attacks including "changing data, loading and running programs, and 
reformatting the hard disk", might be possible, according to the low-fat 
version of Microso



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