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Microsoft is battling a second security problem in Web management software used on hundreds of thousands of Web sites around the world.

As reported on Friday, Microsoft acknowledged that rogue software code containing the phrase "Netscape engineers are weenies!" was included in its Windows NT operating system and could open up Web sites to unauthorized access. The nearly five-year-old code also can be used to crash Web sites running FrontPage 98 server extensions, Microsoft has acknowledged.

Now, in a second security notice posted late Friday, Microsoft warned: "Shortly after publishing the bulletin, we learned of a new, separate vulnerability that significantly increases the threat to users of these products."

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