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Acer's fast one, part II.

Wednesday 17 January 2007 at 6:38 pm
A couple of days ago I wrote about a rogue ActiveX control found on some newer Acer laptops that allowed arbitrary commands to be executed in response to a user visiting a malicious webpage. The SANS Institute has written an update to this vulnerability, with links to both a patch from Microsoft and a link to a US-CERT article.

Tags: acer, activex, fast_one

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