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Spyware Tunnels in on Winamp Flaw

Posted by Hemos on from the hey-now-get-your-upgrade-on dept.

Andy Philips writes "A security bug in Winamp is being exploited by miscreants to install spyware on machines running the media player software. "After surfing to a malicious Web site on our test machines, the file 'x.pls' begins to download, Almost immediately, Winamp starts to execute the play list and remote code execution begins." Sunbelt's Adam Thomas wrote in a posting. The Winamp problem affects version 5.12 of the media player. Earlier versions may also be affected."

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  1. Why don't they make a law... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why don't they make a law that would make those exploits considered as an hacking act? all those spyware install in mostly illegal way...