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Image Handling Flaw Puts Windows At Risk
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has released word that several image handling flaws may open Windows PCs to Spyware or viruses. From the article: 'We will continue to see this type of vulnerabilities in every major application for the foreseeable future ... It is not just images, but any type of complex file format. This is something that security researchers and hackers have realized to be a weak point in many applications.'"
Windows wasn't open to spyware and viruses before?
This vulnerability is a dupe!
Windows has already had an image handling flaw!
Oh, it's Windows. False alarm.
This is why we need more managed code.
Or your computer could get an STD (Screenally Transmitted Disease) from viewing pornographic images.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
So now not only will looking at the goatse picture make you vommit, it will take over your Windoze PC!
Will the horrors ever stop?!!
DEAD DEAD DEAD DELETE ME
It's not really a fundamental flaw?
So usenet is dead?
Netcraft confirms it!
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
Well, it went up on the slashdot mainpage, so that likelihood for a great number of users is a lot lower than it would have been.
The 35 users I'm responsible for just got an email instructing them on how to to do the patch, with links to the patch execs that now live on our local file server.
This model -- (1) Microsoft announces it; (2) I hear about it on /. or security focus (usually both); (3) my users hear about it from me -- works well.
Sure, that's a drop in the bucket for windows PCs, but the point is that the communication chanels are open, and as long as people have the oportunity to hear about these things, we can reasonably expect them to be responsible for implementing them
Of course, that's not an excuse for making vulnerable software in the first place...
So usenet is dead?
alt.binaries.necrophilia has been very quiet lately.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
"Microsoft has released Word"
That is the real threat, my friend.
Only use plain text email and turn off all image loading in Internet Explorer!
Not only will this stop the spread of viruses, it will drive hundreds of thousands of noobs off the internet. Usenet will be stored to it's former glory and AOL will go out of business. Marketshare of Linux and MacOSX will skyrocket and peace and balance will be restored to the Force!
I was going to point out that "unnessacerally" was spelled incorrectly. I was then going to suggest that you could use Google as a spell checker, by typing your spelling into it, and seeing what it suggested with its "Do you mean...." thing.
Then I went and typed that spelling into Google, and found out that enough people have spelled it incorrectly on the web that Google doesn't know how to correct it, and suggests another incorrect spelling.
Correct spelling is "unnecessary".
Now, mod me down as a pedantic twit.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Then why would you try to install the patch in the first place ? Heck, why would you even be running Windows ?
The code was different when I posted it. As usual, Slashdot eats my punctuation
Yeah, yeah, "the dog ate my homework". Heard it before ... ;-)
What would Lemmy do?