The Linux "zombie" machines were compromised when hackers broke into them by exploiting a default setting for the network file system through an RFC buffer overflow, Rouland explains.

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It modifies the Word setting by infecting the warning template and the current open file, he said.

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In a sign he is edging closer to a presidential run in 2000, Jesse Jackson is seriously considering setting up a presidential exploratory committee this fall and will file a political action committee statement in early August, Jackson confidantes tell CNN.

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