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Welcome to the PCMag.com Security Watch Newsletter. Every week we bring you an overview of the current viruses, worms, and other threats and the information you need to combat them. Is Zango violating copyrights? It sure looks that way. Vista's User Access Control has gotten a bad reputation in the press, but the reality of it is different. Acrobat PDF files are a hot vehicle for delivering malware. And a but in Skype could allow an attacker to run code on your system. For more on these threats, vulnerabilities and other issues, visit the Watch.  More Funny Business From Zango
Learning To Love UAC
Malicious PDFs And The Tools That Make Them
Remote Execution Bug In Skype
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Learning To Love UAC
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Malicious PDFs And The Tools That Make Them
One tool for making malicious PDFs is pretty slick. Read this story
Remote Execution Bug In Skype
A logic bug allows code already on the system to be run. Read this story
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