Win-XP Help Center request wipes your HD

A malicious Win-XP Help Center request can easily and silently delete the contents of any directory on your Windows machine, we've learned. Worse, MS has rolled the fix silently into SP1 without making a public announcement.

Such a command can be in the form of a clickable link in Messenger, so anyone who hasn't already installed the Service Pack 1, should do so A.S.A.P

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