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BlackIce Defender - backdoor
« on: February 11, 2002, 04:47:44 AM »
Researchers Discover Serious Hole in Popular Internet Security Program
By D. Ian Hopper The Associated Press
Published: Feb 8, 2002

WASHINGTON (AP) - A programming mistake in a popular consumer Internet protection program can give hackers control over a user's computer, the publisher disclosed Friday.
All current versions of BlackICE Defender and BlackICE Agent, both made by Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems, running on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP are vulnerable to the attack.

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