another reason to buy Xandros Linux as a dual boot with your WinDoze PC !!! microsoft windows Computer security experts were grappling with the threat of a new weakness in Microsoft's Windows operating system that could put
hundreds of millions of PCs at risk of infection by spyware or viruses.
"The
potential [security threat] is huge," said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure, an antivirus company. "It's probably bigger than for any other vulnerability we've seen. Any version of Windows is vulnerable right now."
The flaw, which allows
hackers to infect computers using programs maliciously inserted into seemingly innocuous image files, was first discovered last week.
