Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' 630
scottott wrote to mention a Washington Post article with the news that the security hole we mentioned on Wednesday has widened. Computers can now be infected just by visiting infected web sites, or looking at images in the preview panel of older versions of Outlook. From the article: "At first, the vulnerability was exploited by just a few dozen Web sites. Programming code embedded in these pages would install a program that warned victims their machines were infested with spyware, then prompted them to pay $40 to remove the supposed pests. Since then, however, hundreds of sites have begun using the flaw to install a broad range of malicious software. SANS has received several reports of attackers blasting out spam e-mails containing links that lead to malicious sites exploiting the new flaw, Ullrich said."
Late breaking news from the article: (Score:5, Funny)
Amazing!
Another /. dupe (Score:5, Funny)
Well, Duh... (Score:5, Funny)
at work on a M$ machine (Score:5, Funny)
Whew (Score:1, Funny)
Get Firefox NOW! (Score:1, Funny)
I do tech support for 60+ machines at work...
The one user that refused to use firefox...
called me a week ago.BEGGING..Her computer had started TALKING
(i.e. audio advertisements in english)
The people in the other cubicles were claiming for an EXORCIST for the biatch.
Re:Browser appliance (Score:2, Funny)
Dude, that cherry was popped a loooooong time ago. And it's been used repeatedly since then...
Can we get some non-shoot-from-hip news? (Score:1, Funny)
I run Firefox and Eudora on XP in addition to Zone Alarm, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and McAfee AV. My wife uses Firefox and Thunderbird. IE is used only on those web sites that require it (which are very, very, very, few) and I uninstall Outlook from every PC. Will I be infected just because I'm running XP? I highly doubt it. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but my doubt factor is nearly maximum. That does not downgrade the severity threat. After all, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Eudora are in a very small minority of Windows users' favorite applications. Believe me, I love to see Microsoft dragged through the mud when possible, but let's at least keep it realistic.
This clearly is a slow news week. The anti-Bush-administration people are making an issue over an NSA web cookie and now we're blaming an entire operating system for application flaws. (I know the whole argument about IE and Outlook being integrated into the operating system, but I still don't see this as an operating system issue if other apps on the same operating system are not vulnerable.)
Re:Late breaking news from the article: (Score:3, Funny)
Missing Option (Score:4, Funny)
Re:at work on a M$ machine (Score:4, Funny)
Pedantic Bastard!
Is there anything else you want me to call you?
Re:HOOORAY! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:at work on a M$ machine (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well, Duh... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait... I know this joke...
When it's a feature
The time has come.. (Score:5, Funny)
Identifier: X-Application/WinTrojan
Name: Windows Trojan File
File Extension Pattern: *.wtf
Re:Late breaking news from the article: (Score:1, Funny)
Who da booty? (Score:3, Funny)
You can lead those sheep to water, but it's going to take an enema to spare them from death by dehydration, oral methods carrying too great a drowning risk.
I guess that may have sounded negative.
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Re:Late breaking news from the article: (Score:3, Funny)
Updates via home page (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Late breaking news from the article: (Score:3, Funny)
Kernels are called kernels, and executives are called pointy-haired bosses. I don't see how you could have got the two classes of objects confused.