Malicious hackers are exploiting last week's disclosure of a Microsoft XP security hole to install Trojan horse malware onto computers.
A Google engineer controversially disclosed details of a Help and Support Centre last week in a bid to get Microsoft to resolve it quicker.
Yet as some security experts feared, hackers have now exploited this hole to install Trojan horse malware onto people's computers.
Security firm Sophos has found a compromised website that uses the vulnerability to drop this Trojan and make it possible for the computer to then be accessed and controlled remotely.
Graham Cluely of Sophos said: "A responsible security researcher would have been happy working with Microsoft on a successful resolution of the issue, and only shared details once a safe patch had been developed."
"Five days isn't a sensible period of time to expect Microsoft to develop a fix which has to be tested thoroughly to ensure it doesn't cause more problems than it intends to correct," he continued.
The engineer, Tavis Ormandy, did offer a workaround to the flaw yet Microsoft said at the the time that this may not work and could damage other elements of the operating system.
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