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	The Web's 12 Scariest Applications

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10-30-2007 12:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/55d9213f-1c43-4bdb-8569-1bb05d3a526e/0DB1D09E-BD95-4AEE-820D-911EABEF0599/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2208185%2C00.asp" href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2208185%2C00.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2208185%2C00.asp"><P>
They may be hiding beneath your bed or in the darkest corners of your business, but you know them when you smell them: applications so popular you'd have to break users' fingers to stop them from creeping into the network. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2208185%2C00.asp">1. Yahoo Messenger, 8.1.0.239 and earlier
<BR />2. Apple QuickTime 7.2
<BR />3. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6
<BR />4. Microsoft Windows Live (MSN) Messenger 7.0, 8.0
<BR />5. EMC VMware Player (and other products) 2.0, 1.0.4
<BR />6. Apple iTunes 7.3.2
<BR />7. Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition, 9 and earlier
<BR />8. Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 	1.6.0_X
<BR />9. Yahoo Widgets 4.0.5 and previous
<BR />10. Ask.com Toolbar 4.0.2.53 and previous
<BR />11. Broadcom wireless device driver as used in Cisco Linksys WPC300N Wireless-N Notebook Adapter 3.50.21.10
<BR />12. Macrovision (formerly InstallShield) InstallFromTheWeb, unversioned</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2208185%2C00.asp">vendors are quick, even aggressive, in creating a patch for vulnerabilities</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2208185%2C00.asp">IT doesn't have the capability to enforce that the patch gets applied</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2208185%2C00.asp">It's up to the user</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0DB1D09E-BD95-4AEE-820D-911EABEF0599/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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