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To: Prime Choice; softwarecreator

I remember that non-event.

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18242.html

The Redmond, Washington-based software giant on Friday acknowledged shipping the malicious code and blamed an unnamed third party that translated the Korean version of the software.

"It looks like the company doing the translation was infected and they passed it on to the product," McAfee.com virus research manager April Goostree told NewsFactor.

Visual Studio has no idea the extra file is there," Flores said. "There's no situation where Visual Studio developers will be able to infect themselves."


24 posted on 10/05/2005 1:50:16 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
I remember that non-event.

Obviously you don't. It was far from a "non-event." And please...Microsoft's buck-passing on that issue was absurd. Anyone who's familiar with the Redmond totalitarians knows that their distributors don't even sneeze without Microsoft's approval in triplicate.

And Microsoft.com's getting spanked by Nimda was certainly not a "non-event" either. Thought you might like to know...

33 posted on 10/05/2005 4:06:40 PM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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