[pchelpers] Re: News: unpatched very serious Windows flaw

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1906915,00.asp

"You don't have to go to a crack site or a porn site," observed a 
posting on the blog of firewall vendor Sunbelt Software USA, of 
Clearwater, Fla.

"You go to any site that is using rotational popups from a third party 
ad network that is spawning Exfol popups, you get exploited," the 
posting continued.


Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) wrote:
> new info:
> 
> http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/index.php?p=735
> 
>> Firefox and Opera users and people not using Outlook Express are safe as 
>> long as they don't download any pictures from any except trusted sites.
>>
>> Internet Explorer and Outlook Express users are infected automatically 
>> by just opening up an infected site or having an infected email first in 
>> the Inbox, even with the preview pane turned off.
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901456.html
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1906513,00.asp
>>
>> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/181038
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx



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