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.'"

Comments

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows wasn't open to spyware and viruses before?

Practice safe image viewing folks!

[nizo]

Or your computer could get an STD (Screenally Transmitted Disease) from viewing pornographic images.

Ack!

[rubberbando]

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?!!

Re:An interesting question

[cbiltcliffe]

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.