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Patch Tuesday Hijacked

Hackers know that Patch Tuesday is a big day, a day when IT prods feverishly download patches and plug holes. It's also a perfect way to trick users into clicking on what they think is legitimate security information from Microsoft, but is instead a Trojan horse.

Is this clever? Not really. Dangerous? You bet! You might want to warn your end users about this one.

Posted by Doug Barney on October 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM


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