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Despite extensive security auditing and development of Vista, the new operating system will not be free of bugs, Microsoft general manager of product security, George Stathakopoulos, concedes.
The animated cursor vulnerability in Windows could also affect those using Firefox on Windows machines, according to one of the security researchers who discovered the flaw.
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