
10-03-2004, 06:33 PM
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Warning!
Gentlefolk,
I’m unsure how many of you are aware that there is a bug in the Windows JPEG viewer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3661678.stm
What this means is that one of the bad guys out there could create a picture which could infect your machine. Microsoft has recommended that you download a patch to fix the vulnerability.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/b...00409_jpeg.mspx
Well, the first pics built with a malicious program which can take control of your Wintel machine have been found on the net.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3701640.stm
I know we at Pixies swap pics about a good bit, so I thought I’d alert you to the situation and suggest that you be even more careful than you already are in accepting unsolicited stuff from people you don’t know. Even pics – particularly JPEGs can whack your machine.
Be careful.
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