INSECURITY VENDOR Sophos has released an in-line checking tool to mitigate exposure against a shortcut vulnerability that affects Microsoft's Windows operating systems.
The vulnerability, first disclosed last week, allows hackers to remotely execute code on machines running Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 by exploiting the way the operating system deals with shortcuts. The Vole's almost comical answer to the problem was to issue a "fix it" that removes all shortcuts from the system.


IE is the only major browser that has still not patched a bug which allows hackers to hijack Web mail accounts and steal data, says security researcher.