These days you can never be sure, as they have a happy knack of finding new vectors for old exploits.
It was meant as an alert to Michel to remove the link, which he has done, especially when a number of users on this site stated that they never use virus scanners.

>What if you're patched? That's a pretty old vuln: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-014.mspx
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>>Yes it is the arstechnica link, just tested it again, it is still there.
>>If your virus scanner didn't pick it up, I guess your infected.
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>>>Do you mean the http://arstechnica.com link? I would be suprised if that page had a problem....but I guess ya never know.
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>>>>Hi,
>>>> The link on the front page regarding the seagate hdd problems has a virus JS/MS06-014!exploit