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So Microsoft finally pushed out a patch that kills of the sidebar and its “offending” gadgets. The news is everywhere as if this is a new story or that the ability of a third party developer to include malicious code is something new as well. The problem is that this is nothing new at all. Microsoft has always had warnings about the dangers of downloading sidebar gadgets since they first appeared in Windows Vista. However, it was always at the user’s own risk if they chose to download and install these and the XML exploit that they talk about is generally mitigated with any type of decent security (like MS Security Essentials).

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