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Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw

San Francisco : CA : USA | 11 months ago  
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The "zero-day" vulnerability, which came to light last week, allows criminals to take over victims' machines simply by steering them to infected Web sites; users don't have to download anything for their computers to get infected, which makes the flaw in Internet Explorer's programming code so dangerous....
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