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Flaws Are Detected in Microsoft’s Vista
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: December 25, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24 — Microsoft is facing an early crisis of
confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as
computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially
serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers
late last month.

On Dec. 15, a Russian programmer posted a description of a flaw that
makes it possible to increase a user’s privileges on all of the
company’s recent operating systems, including Vista. And over the
weekend a Silicon Valley computer security firm said it had notified
Microsoft that it had also found that flaw, as well as five other
vulnerabilities, including one serious error in the software code
underlying the company’s new Internet Explorer 7 browser. 

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