Be careful with your JPEGs...another Microsoft security flaw

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6003852/

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday it has found a new security flaw with its Windows XP operating system and warned that an attacker could infiltrate other computers by persuading their owners to open a specialized graphics file.

The company released a patch (http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx) to fix the flaw as well as a tool that allows users to scan their systems to see if they need it. Users who have already downloaded Microsoft's recent security update, Service Pack 2, are not affected.

The vulnerability affects people running Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, later versions of Office. People who have earlier versions of Windows or Office may also be affected if they are running some specialized applications, such as Digital Image Pro and Visio 2002.

The flaw is in a technology that is used to render images in the popular JPEG format. It can be exploited only if the user is tricked into opening a specialized file or viewing a specially crafted JPEG image, Microsoft said.

[MrScorpio]

1. Reason #12.736 why I'm glad I have a Mac

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2. Get a Mac my poor winDOZE using DUers!

You'll be problem free. :)

and happy just like me! :P

(heh that rhymes)

[strategery blunder]

3. I would if I wasn't such an avid gamer

Winblow$=games.

Mac=waiting 6 months for a Mac version of said games to come out, if you even get that lucky.

*sigh* I'm kinda trapped here.

[JohnKleeb]

11. I know what you mean chair, I know

but hey, its all good though.

[JohnKleeb]

7. Yeah but with a Mac, I cant wonder what it would be like in WWII

So while a Mac may have its advantages, I still would prefer to play Call of Duty, MOHAA, etc than have few game choices.

[TexasSissy]

4. I don't open attachments of any type from people I don't know, or that

I'm not expecting. Period. So I don't get viruses that way.

I download plug-ins or whatnot periodically, but not often, and I'm careful of the source.

[DS1]

5. Little do Mac users realize that if everyone got Macs

they'd be just as fucked as Windows users.

Oh, sweet irony.

[MrScorpio]

6. Sure, but today we're smug as shit

That's life without irony

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8. Mmm, an irony free life

that's the life me likes

[jmatthan]

9. That is why I hope the majority of you will continue

to use Windows so that people like me continue to have the peace we have enjoyed for 20 years starting from my humble Apple IIC to my present super duper eMac!! And when I can afford it I will move to the G5.

(And I continue to use all the Macs that I have had in between - and none of them has had to be retired.)

Vive le Windows.

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland

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10. Get an iMac G5!

It's sooooooooo small, sooooooooo sexy, soooooooooo powerful.

[JohnKleeb]

12. you know I had never thought about it like that

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13. Macs will never sell as much as all PC's

the right path is always the least popular!