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Old August 10, 2007, 09:39 AM
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"An unpatched flaw in drivers from ATI creates a means to smuggle malware past improved security defences in the latest version of Windows and into the Vista kernel."

ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel | The Register
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Old August 23, 2007, 02:33 PM
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Awe man, this wasn't needed. I think that no matter what they do, even if they fix that we still will have malicious problems with Vista.
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Old August 24, 2007, 06:43 PM
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is this beyond the garbage like steam that ati is trying to "slip" in with its drivers now.
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