It has been just this week that Microsoft Corp. has publicly spoken about the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol bug that affects its operating system. But the security researchers have made already a new discovery, unfortunately. They have said that this protocol bug is likely to affect several different operating systems excepting Microsoft’s Windows after all.

Nathan McFeters, one of the security researchers that have been studying this already famous flaw, has promised he tries to soon present more details on how the protocol bug is suspectible to affect also the Unix-based operating systems such as Linux or Apple’s Mac OS X. McFeters hopes to be ready with presenting more details on this topic with the occasion of the Toorcon hacking conference that will be held the week to come in San Diego.

Although the security researchers have not found a way to run unauthorized code also on the Unix-based operating systems, they have still found a number of issues that look like they might be grounds for further research.

The URI protocol bug that has been studied by the security researcher over the past recent months is being related to the URI protocol handling technology, which is used for launching programs within the web browsers.