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January 2, 2002
WASHINGTON – A security hole in AOL Time Warner's Instant Messenger program used by millions of users worldwide can let a hacker take full control of a victim's computer, according to security researchers and the company.
Pretty scary eh? Yet an AOL spokesman said the problem will be fixed soon, and users won't have to download anything. And what will really get your blood boiling is when it was discovered by a loose team of international researchers called 'w00w00,' the hole was found to be a "buffer overflow," like the problem recently found in Microsoft's Windows XP.