Have already run AVG anti virus and malware bites but they are not picking up anything.
Very Best Regards Waqas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tim Sent: 25 September 2012 15:52 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Mozilla Firefox Run your virus and spyware protection. At 09:48 AM 9/25/2012, you wrote: >Hmm! I am running IE8 on my home office machine and it is behaving >strangely for a few days. For instance, it won't open certain web pages >or comes up with an error message that it will close down. Any >thoughts, how I can find out for sure if it is effected? > > >Very Best Regards > >Waqas > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi >Sent: 25 September 2012 14:20 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Mozilla Firefox > >There was a serious security hole in IE that was discovered recently, >and code exploits were in the wild. It was serious enough that my >university chose to recommend that everyone stop using IE until >Microsoft released a fix for this hole. They even pushed FireFox out >to all domain managed computers at the university. > >I've never seen a response like this before, so I thought it was worth >warning a few lists I am on. > >Microsoft has released an update and you should make sure to install it >as soon as possible. Your virus definitions would not have helped you >in this case. If you had been lured into going to a maliciously >crafted web site, or hit a legitimate site with a compromised ad on it, >it was possible to have remote code executed on your machine, at the >same level of permissions as the user running IE at the time. Since >most people don't set up users with limited access to their own >machine, most people are running with administrator privileges, so this could be pretty serious. > >Again, I rarely send out warnings of viruses or malware, but when I see >a response like this from our security office, I believe it to be a >credible and serious threat. > >Again, Microsoft has released a fix and you should update as soon as >possible. > >-- >Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Senior Oracle Database Administrator >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail: [email protected] >Tel: (412) 268-9081 > >For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5290 - Release Date: >09/24/12 > > >For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5290 - Release Date: 09/24/12 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
