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New Trojan Horse Threatens Latest Windows XP
Computers running MicrosoftRelevant Products/Services from Microsoft Windows XP Latest News about Windows XP can be infected by a new Trojan plug program remotely controlled in a victim's system, even after it is patched with Microsoft's latest Service Pack twain, IT security Intelligence News about Security company Symantec Latest News about Symantec warned Wednesday.
The program -- dubbed "Phel", an anagrammatical of "Help" -- infects visitors to a malicious website through Internet Explorer's Help controls, Symantec warned in an advisory.
The Trojan horse exploits a vulnerability, found in October, in how Internet Explorer and Trademark XP Service Pack snake eyes handle assist files called from Web pages.
The flaw is unconnected to the recent help-file flaws discovered by a Chinese security company last week. In that exemplification, Microsoft took the
Chinese security group to labor for disclosing the vulnerability without giving the company a chance to develop a way to amend the problem.
A patch is not yet available from Microsoft for the October gap, nor the most recent flaws, but the software giant said its programmers are working on the issue.
"Microsoft is taking this vulnerability very seriously, and an update to correct the vulnerability is current in development," a Microsoft spokesman told press, "we will release the security update package after complete the development and examine process."
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