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Win-XP Help Center request wipes your HD

By Red Wolf

1 October 2002

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A malicious Windows XP help centre request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine. Worse, Microsoft has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a public announcement

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