Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said a critical flaw in most versions of its Windows operating system could allow attackers to run malicious programs on personal computers.
Reuters is reporting that in its monthly security bulletin, the world’s largest software maker warned that Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 were at risk and offered software updates to fix the flaws, which were given Microsoft’s highest severity rating of “critical.”
Marc Maiffret, co-founder of eEye Digital Security, the company that discovered the flaw, criticized Microsoft for taking more than six months to come up with a patch to fix the problem, particularly since the flaw allows an attacker multiple ways to break into a system and could do almost anything they wanted to the system.
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