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Yahoo! users are urged to upgrade their instant messaging software following the discovery of a brace of security vulnerabilities - the second set of serious security flaws involving Yahoo! Messenger in as many weeks. The latest security bugs both stem from stack-based buffer overflow flaws in the YVerInfo.dll ActiveX control …

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  1. AndyB

    You're slipping!

    Shouldn't the title be:-

    Yahoo! battered! by! second! ActiveX! vulnerability! ?

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  2. Daniel Ballado-Torres

    ActiveX

    Yahoo! doesn't! learn!

    Lesson! is! stop! using! activeX!

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  4. Jeffrey Nonken

    ActiveX? Ewww. Don't get any on me.

    Y!M isn't using ActiveX in the OS X version, surely they can do without it under Windows?

    ... And if you are running Windows it's yet another reason to use a third-party instant messenger. You know, one that doesn't have quite so much stupid in it.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Everyone knows that...

    ...ActiveX gives you teh cancer!

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