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zodium

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Due to the recent discovery of a MAJOR insecurity in the way Windows handles images, I have nuked the ability to have a signature, set a new avatar and killed all BBcode functionality (because apparently I can't just kill the
 
oh boy

Yea we were all over that today at work...
I work in I.T. for a large company, and my best friend works for Mcafee.

Word has it, it will be quite some time before a "fix" is found.

No worries, neither my avatar or sig has ever worked anyway.



:lol:
 
Was wondering if you could point me to information on this new security issue with images. All of my searching turns up stuff from 2004 with the Microsoft Windows LoadImage API Integer Buffer issue or the issue marked in Nov for Windows Metafile Multiple Heap Overflows. Both of which appear to have patches from MS already.

Asking because I have several people at work that seem to live for things like this.
 
Another great site that I use all the time, usually check it each morning to see what the world's traffic is like is SANS

http://isc.sans.org/

Very handy for SysAdmins/Network Engineers like myself.

Xardon
 
Windows flaw this, Windows flaw that.





> http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html

"The Browser Appliance is a free virtual machine that allows you to browse the Internet securely using
Mozilla Firefox, running under Ubuntu Linux 5.10, optimized for browsing. You can run the
Browser Appliance with VMware Player to experience the many benefits of virtualization on the
desktop."


Stop depending on late security fixes and instead browse with your gloves on.
 
Apparently, initial reports that using non-IE browsers would not protect you were false. I'm restoring the forums to full functionality, but make sure to use Firefox or Opera or some other browser as we can't catch everything right away. Better safe than sorry.
 
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