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Windows PCs face ‘huge’ virus threat
Financial Times via Drudge ^
| January 2 2006 18:18
| By Kevin Allison in San Francisco
Posted on 01/02/2006 3:54:03 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: backhoe
To: Swordmaker
Every version of Windows released since 1990 is affected.
The internet is going to be a might plain looking place without any graphics...
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:55:11 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
To: Swordmaker
In other news, water is wet, the sky is blue, and women are hard to understand sometimes.
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:57:06 PM PST
by
mysterio
To: Swordmaker
People need to switch over to Mac.
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:57:27 PM PST
by
LEPEN
To: Swordmaker
Reminds me one more time why I love my Mac!
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:57:42 PM PST
by
Laserman
To: Swordmaker
Get Root!
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:58:36 PM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(Trust in the YHvH for ever, for the LORD, YHvH is the Rock eternal. (Isaiah 26:4))
To: Swordmaker
Wanted to ask anyone if turning off pictures from laoding in IE helps getting infected.
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posted on
01/02/2006 3:58:51 PM PST
by
Baraonda
(Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
To: Swordmaker
To: Swordmaker
what's the bug? does it only affect web images loaded into Internet Explorer, or is any browser vulnerable?
To: Swordmaker
As noted on earlier threads, there is a temporary fix at:
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm
Bookmark the page, so you can restore this function after Microsoft issues the patch. Gibson is reliable, and explains how to temporarily disable this function and re-enable it after the fix comes out.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:00:00 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Baraonda
helps getting infected = helps from getting infected.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:00:01 PM PST
by
Baraonda
(Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
To: Swordmaker
Good advertisement for F-secure...
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:00:19 PM PST
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: Swordmaker
Every version might be affected, but processors that support Data Execution Prevention aren't affected. AMD and Intel users with hardware DEP can turn it on and forget about it.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:00:19 PM PST
by
cabojoe
To: oceanview
what's the bug? does it only affect web images loaded into Internet Explorer, or is any browser vulnerable? Apparently any application that uses the Windows dispay graphic DLLs is vulnerable.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:00:54 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
To: Swordmaker
The flaw, which allows hackers to infect computers using programs maliciously inserted into seemingly innocuous image files, was first discovered last week. Errr, I thought the flaw was in .wmv files, quit downloading porn and music files until the patch comes out.....problem solved.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:01:40 PM PST
by
Decepticon
(The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the sheepdog lives for that day (NRA)
To: oceanview
Any browser, any image viewer amd email program is vulnerable. Windows Explorer browser is vulnerable.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:01:53 PM PST
by
Baraonda
(Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
To: LEPEN
The only reason MACs don't have viruses is that nobody targets them.
Software is software. If someone wanted to exploit the MACOS, they could.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:02:43 PM PST
by
Paloma_55
(Which part of "Common Sense" do you not understand???)
To: Cicero
Please put a caveat that there are currently no fixes for Windows 98, 98 SE and ME.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:03:10 PM PST
by
Baraonda
(Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
To: Swordmaker
Steve is grinning from ear to ear over this.
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posted on
01/02/2006 4:04:19 PM PST
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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