Microsoft Alert!
This is the kind of thing I deal with on a daily basis; alerting clients to potential issues that they might have on their network. Let's face it you have your job and I have mine for a reason. However there are some shady consultants out there and some IT folk who don't keep up on the latest news in our sectors.
Heck in the best interest of those you do employ and to help educate those that want to be up to date I will not post all the alerts I get but ones like this I feel the need to. So, here goes:
Microsoft Security Advisory 912840
In short they have found a bug in the new Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Picture and Fax Viewer (Shimgvw.dll) that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on your PC without your approval/consent. All it takes is for you to open an email (with HTML turned on) or click a link that takes you to an attacker's site. Now I have said it many times before, yet not here, and honestly don't always practice it mysef; you should always read your email in plain text format. True you lose the pictures and "neat stuff" you might get in email but hey, if you don't know the originator of the email should you open it anyhow?
When they come up with a fix I will put up a new post with that fix. If you have Windows update turned on to automatically update you won't even have to come back to find out. Isn't that nice?
More to come today!
Heck in the best interest of those you do employ and to help educate those that want to be up to date I will not post all the alerts I get but ones like this I feel the need to. So, here goes:
Microsoft Security Advisory 912840
In short they have found a bug in the new Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Picture and Fax Viewer (Shimgvw.dll) that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on your PC without your approval/consent. All it takes is for you to open an email (with HTML turned on) or click a link that takes you to an attacker's site. Now I have said it many times before, yet not here, and honestly don't always practice it mysef; you should always read your email in plain text format. True you lose the pictures and "neat stuff" you might get in email but hey, if you don't know the originator of the email should you open it anyhow?
When they come up with a fix I will put up a new post with that fix. If you have Windows update turned on to automatically update you won't even have to come back to find out. Isn't that nice?
More to come today!
posted by Michael at 12/29/2005 09:24:00 AM
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