Yet another reason to drop Internet Explorer and Outlook as your browser and e-mail clients: Microsoft has announced a serious vulnerability in the way it handles the most popular digital picture format. As stated in the previously linked, story from The Register, the hole “potentially allows an attacker to craft a special JPEG file that would take control of a victim’s machine when the user views it through Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, and other programs. The poisoned picture could be displayed on a website, sent in email, or circulated on a P2P network.”
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More and more people are beoming dependent on their computers for their lives control of money and inventory, passwords, etc. This being the case, it is neccessary to make sure you know all the ways to take control of your own system, and as many of the ways that one can over take someone elses computer, knowing these things can keep you aware and on your toes.
Don;t just trust a site that says online scan or says they are Microsoft partners, go to the Microsoft website and look at the partner page, you don;t see the people who claim they are affiliated make a call to Microsoft, they’ll listen.
Be well and Happy Surfing