Security solution from Microsoft

Citation

(1999), "Security solution from Microsoft", Asian Libraries, Vol. 8 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1999.17308bad.004

Security solution from Microsoft

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Security solution from Microsoft

Three of the Internet's most commonly used e-mail programs contain security flaws that will force tens of millions of computer users around the world to upgrade their e-mail software or risk attacks from hackers. The flaw, apparently, would enable fake messages to be sent to millions of unintended PC users, triggering programming code that could create a disk crash or some other malicious action. Microsoft has developed a software patch to protect against the problem: it is available at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/security