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MP3 viruses could play with Winamp
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Posted by: Tweaker
A glitch with the popular Winamp software for playing digital music files could allow an attacker to embed malicious code into an MP3 file, potentially damaging the user's PC and infecting other MP3s.
Nullsoft, a division of AOL Time Warner that makes Winamp, has confirmed the vulnerability in an older release of the software. The glitch does not affect the newest version, 2.80, which was released last week. In the older version, the problem can be fixed by disabling Winamp's mini-browser.
The weakness is particularly dangerous because MP3 files are generally considered safe, and hundreds of thousands of people frequently trade them with unknown Internet users via file-swapping services such as Kazaa and Morpheus.
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Source: CNET News
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