Be sure to update ALL your Microsoft software including Windows, Office, Picture It, FrontPage, Publisher, Word, Excel, Access, etc.
Here's the link to Microsoft's new update tool that is supposed to aid in the update of all jpg-related software:
And be sure your anti-virus and firewall software are up to date. Yesterday my anti-virus software successfully blocked an attempt to infect my PC with a trojan. I haven't been able to track down the source or duplicate it after retracing all the sites I visited yesterday.
Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs
Published: September 14, 2004, 1:24 PM PDT
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Microsoft published on Tuesday a patch for a major security flaw in its software's handling of the JPEG graphics format and urged customers to use a new tool to locate the many applications that are vulnerable.
The critical flaw has to do with how Microsoft's operating systems and other software process the widely used JPEG image format and could let attackers create an image file that would run a malicious program on a victim's computer as soon as the file was viewed. Because the software giant's Internet Explorer browser is vulnerable, Windows users could fall prey to an attack just by browsing to an untrusted Web site.
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