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Story: Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista

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Posted by: ator1940 (Tuesday 6 February 2007, 2:39 PM)

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No surprises following speech flaw

And the surprise is? A flaw was discovered on Wednesday, by George Ou, in vista's use of the text to speech app. It is used by the disabled and will do as told with no dialog box to confirm the operation. An e-mail, with audio file, could do serious damage to a computer. This is the first flaw and I suspect there will be many more to follow.

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