The Deckoutyourdeck ad launching the WMF exploit. (Courtesy of Michael La Pilla)
An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows, according to data collected by iDefense, a Verisign company.
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