A hacker that got close enough to take advantage of this exploit could simply club the user over the head and gain control over the PC that way. But it's good that Microsoft fixed this critical Bluetooth vulnerability for XP SP1 & SP2 all the same. Here's hoping that hackers would prefer to do their business from a room other than the one being occupied by the user.
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