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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


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