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Friday, July 09, 2004

New family PC risks, Part 2: Games!

Last week we looked at the phenomenon of invasive Web sites and pop-ups. This week a heads-up for gamers of all ages.... If your child plays Unreal Tournament or other multiplayer games that run on the basic Unreal game code, your PC could become a hacker playground. "As they develop more online capabilities, games have become an increasingly popular avenue for online miscreants," CNET reports. The "miscreants" could compromise the Unreal engine's "security tool" and use it to take over the computer your child uses to play these games. We asked CorePROTECT CEO and father-of-six Tim LaFazia what he thought of this new PC security development. Click here for his view.

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