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“A flaw in Sun Microsystems’ plug-in for running Java on a
variety of browsers and operating systems could allow a virus to
spread through Microsoft Windows and Linux PCs.“The vulnerability, found by Finnish security researcher Jouko
Pynnonen in June, was patched last month by Sun, but its details
were not made public until Tuesday…”
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