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Security company Symantec raised its severity rating of the latest incarnation of the NetSky worm.
The creators of the Bofra worm, which exploits a recently discovered iFrame vulnerability in Internet Explorer, may have timed the release of their worm to throw Microsoft's monthly patch cycle into disarray, say security experts.
After a 'painful year', Microsoft is slowly making progress on the security front, according to one of its senior European executives.
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