April 2007

Flaw Allows Critical Windows Exploit

"Upon viewing a Web page, previewing or reading a specially crafted message, or opening a specially crafted e-mail attachment, the attacker could cause the affected system to execute code," sez Microsoft in its advisory. Using any version of Windows, including Vista, and Internet Explorer could lead to catastrophe merely by viewing a web site. Simply viewing an .html page as displayed by most email clients such as Outlook Express could lead the same result. Best Practices? Consider using another browser such as Opera or Mozilla Firefox and/or another email client such as Thunderbird.