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Massive Web Based Spyware Attack More than 20,000 Web pages infected on hundreds of Web sites had been discovered by the researchers from the McAfee Inc. security company. It looks to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China. | If your software is up to date, you shouldn’t be concerned about, because this kind of attack code takes advantage of bugs that have already been patched. Yet, McAfee advises that caution measures are necessary: some of the exploits can be obtained form doubtful programs such as ActiveX controls for online games, without being patched, because users don’t assume it is necessary. | Full read from Source |