Yahoo! Messenger ActiveX flaw fixed

Yahoo! fixed a little flaw this week in Yahoo! Messenger for Windows that could have been used by hackers. The flaw was in the ActiveX control and allowed hackers to crash a chat session and Internet Explorer. Worse, it could have executed malicious code on the victim’s machine. The initiation could have taken place if hackers prompted users to view HTML code that linked to a web site with malicious code.

Not to worry, though–Yahoo! has this “highly critical” bug all fixed, and is recommending that users who downloaded Yahoo! Messenger before November 2nd to install the new 8.1 update.