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Sunday, March 21, 2004

Firewall security hole allows worm to overwrite boot sector!

If I'm reading the Slashdot summary correctly, instead of the firewall software protecting your computer, certain products had a security hole that let others overwrite your boot sector. That's pretty funny in a sick sort of way. If you have any of that software I'd recommend patching it.

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