Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the oops-they-did-it-again dept.
thedude13 writes " Infoworld is running a story about a major security hole in AOL ® Instant Messenger(TM) and how it handles away messages. AIM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow via the auto-response away message mechanism. Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim."
Re:Needs user assistance
by
LostCluster
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· Score: -1, Redundant
Well, there still is some level of user involvement left there. Web browsers don't go visiting web pages randomly... the user somehow has to get fooled into visiting an unsafe site for the whole process to start.
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Well, there still is some level of user involvement left there. Web browsers don't go visiting web pages randomly... the user somehow has to get fooled into visiting an unsafe site for the whole process to start.