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Windows Millennium Edition enables you to compress directory folders and protect them with passwords. However, Microsoft recently reported that those passwords are actually written in plain text to a file on your computer. Anyone with physical access to your PC who wanted to poke through your most confidential files--and who knew where to look--would be able to access those passwords. This vulnerability does not affect any other password-protected areas (like Windows log-on). Versions of Windows 98 and 98 Second Edition with the Plus 98 add-on are also vulnerable.
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