1/02/2006 11:05:00 am|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|IMPORTANT: Major security hole in Windows WMF - from Guardian Unlimited
Jack Schofield writes:
"Your Windows PC can now be infected with the nastiest malware imaginable just by viewing an image, or just by (say) Google Desktop or Lotus Notes or some other software accessing the image without you even seeing it. Using a recent version of Firefox or Opera is an improvement on IE but does not guarantee safety. Worst of all, this flaw in Microsoft's WMF picture file and fax viewer is a zero-day exploit for which there is no fix, officially."
No iBook smugness here - the family use a PC so I'll be busy slamming this door tomorrow if I can. |W|P|113620004770804813|W|P|Major security hole in Windows WMF|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com1/05/2006 09:59:00 pm|W|P| Br3nda of coffee.geek.nz|W|P|umm.. the fix would be to disable wmf libraries in windows.. right?
assuming it's a library...
i wouldn't put it past Ms to put wmf support in the kernel or something... but, so? replace the kernel.1/02/2006 01:47:00 am|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|
This track and the forest beyond has become a regular haunt for me over the last week or so.
Whilst I was running regularly back in London, I have lapsed severely since leaving the UK and have managed just one run each in Los Angeles, Rarotonga and Foxton. As we are now more settled and I'm no longer tearing around chasing interviews, I have started to get back into the groove. Thanks to the endless takeaways and a little too much beer and wine in this land of plenty, I guess that I am about about 5kg heavier than I was when I was in London. Add to this the usual Christmas and New Year festivities and you'll appreciate that it is proving to be something of a hard slog. However, I am now able to run amongst the tall firs of the local forests, swapping the pavements, car horns and fumes of London's East End for the birdsong, chirruping cicadas and pine scent of Riverhead. The difference is incredible, allowing me to enjoy the experience and focus on my running rather than watching traffic or teenage gangs out to hassle the unwary.
All this is just as well because, somehow in amongst all the frantic activity of starting my new job, I have managed to sign up for at least one leg of the Great Lake Relay 06. The thought of driving down country in six week's time with a bunch of colleagues to spend the night running 160kms round the country's biggest lake has had a certain sobering effect, I can tell you.|W|P|113616792600359475|W|P|Run, forest, run|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com