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Digital attacks on Winamp use 'skins' for camouflage
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27th August 2004, 11:11
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  Digital attacks on Winamp use 'skins' for camouflage C|Net reports that a group of security researchers discovered that spyware makers are using a flaw in the way the multimedia software loads graphical themes, or skins, to infect PCs with their wares. The digital music player--made by America Online subsidiary Nullsoft, whose informal mascot is the llama--improperly allows the skin files to run programs. http://news.com.com/Digital+attacks+on+Winamp+use+'skins'+for+camouflage/2100-1002_3-5323990.html?tag=nefd.top
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