I fail to understand why anyone connected to the internet does not have the best AV software they can buy. I learnt the hard way when even the PC manufacturer was unaware of the problems and in the mid 90s had motherboards and memory swapped several times on warranty all down to a virus unwittingly installed by an equipment supplier ,thank you Imapro UK. At that time it took 3 months out of my working year and I was rescued by someone who simply said,"It could be a virus" You have to buy the best. Second best is not ever good enough and if you are too tight to buy the best you deserve to crash. Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files
___________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Skyscan" Subject: [PRODIG] Malicious jpegs in open > Hi Folks I pass on this worrying news item > regards > Brenda Marks, Skyscan > > JPEG exploit goes wild > [PC Pro] 11:57 > > > Code that was able to take advantage of the JPEG bug began circulating on > the Internet about a week ago. > > As is common with much of the malicious software written to attack Microsoft > vulnerabilities, this particular exploit appeared after Microsoft had issued > a patch. Hackers often reverse engineer Microsoft's patches in order to > create code to exploit the hole that the patch fixed. However, the time > between releasing a patch and the appearance of malicious code to exploit > the identified vulnerability grows ever shorter. Security experts greatest > fear is a 'zero-day' exploit, where hackers launch exploit code less than a > day after Microsoft issues a patch, so that no-one has time to update their > systems. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
