Hi Don, I would not panic too much about this, unless you have a enterprise DP application, where you have many and possibly malicious users. Probably it would only be a benefit to the attacker if the target site is a high value site, eg banking, etc. You should of course make sure your Windows is patched, and that you run your PC behind a firewall, and antivirus software is installed and up to date, and of course, never run executable code that you are not sure is safe, eg email attachments, and executable programs that some website might ask you to run. If a site offers to install Adobe Flash or Acrobat and you know or suspect you have it installed, then ignore the request; if you think it might really be needed, go directly to Adobe's website (or the reputable vendors site of whatever else is being offer to install) and install it there rather than take a chance on something dodgy.
Also on the subject of security, applets that run on social networking sites, worry me, as I feel they can e a vehicle for causing malicious code to run on you PC. So anything that offers to install something on my machine I generally avoid, unless I am very certain of its authenticity and that there is an estabilished need for it Also, Microsoft would love to kill off all the DOS apps out there, as there are still a great number of legacy systems still using it, and Microsoft is not getting a penny out of these, so my suspicious mind wanders to thinking that Microsoft would love people to voluntarily turn DOS off. Bye Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Codling Sent: Friday, 22 January 2010 11:00 AM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Subject: [Dataperf] Security threat January 21, 2010 The latest security vulnerability for Windows is apparently 17 years old, and the workaround for the moment is to disable access by DOS programs (16 bit programs) [http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5307&tag=nl.e589]. Does anyone know what the implications of this are for DP? Thanks Don Codling _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
