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September 24, 2004

They're coming in through the pictures...

Miles, the tinyapps.org guy, points us to a an article about yet another Microsoft vulnerability. It turns out that there's a way that just downloading a jpg can let a virus in.

You can run a utility on this page to see if your machine is vulnerable (mine was), and there's also a link to the page with the plug for the hole. It does not require you to upgrade to SP2, a fate some of us are postponing.

What next, viruses that get in if you type too slowly?

Posted by D. Weinberger at September 24, 2004 03:44 PM

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