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Vista pranks possible via voice commands
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
"PC, root thyself." It may not be that easy, but users of Windows Vista may have to watch out for malicious audio files. 
Prompted by a posting on a security mailing list, security experts investigated and confirmed that a computer running Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows Vista, could have system commands activated by audio files running on a Web site. While Microsoft implementation of least privilege settings for users mean that most harmful commands would have to somehow bypass Vista’s User Account Control, basic commands could still delete documents on a user’s PC without requiring a password…
…, according to ZDNet information-technology blogger George Ou. Vista pranks possible via voice commands
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