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  Microsoft Tries to Make Windows Updates Flame Retardant
Time: 04:11 EST/09:11 GMT | News Source: New York Times | Posted By: Robert Stein

Like archaeologists on a dig, security researchers continue to unearth some interesting — some terrifying — facts about Flame, the virus aimed at computers in the Middle East. For one, Flame did what security professionals have nightmares about malware doing: mimicking Microsoft’s Windows update mechanism and spreading through it. “Having a Microsoft code-signing certificate is the Holy Grail of malware writers. This has now happened,” Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, the antivirus company in Helsinki, wrote in a blog post Monday.

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