Now porn can give you a nasty infection
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3701640.stm

Not that anybody here looks at internet p0rn, of course. :)

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Of course not...

*backs away from thread quietly :Sprint: .

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None on here :)..... honest :)

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Heh, and it's the sort of infection that even natural yoghurt won't clear up!

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:Yikes: OMFG when will it end ??, never !!! How many more nastys can we expect, the article mentions making sure all machines are full patched and that sp2 is installed, i'm not keen on installing sp2 after some of the storys i've heard. It also says that it only afects machines if the pics are opened in IE, sooooo here comes firefox me thinks. :confused:

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Well, it's always left me sweaty and light-headed ;)

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Of course, mac users don't have this problem... :D Not meaning to start the Mac vs PC debate again...

Edit: Bop, Microsoft do have a patch for XP SP1.. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../MS04-028.mspx

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Yes, and in this case it's difficult to trot out the usual 'everybody else is just as bad, it's just that M$ is more popular so more viruses get written/exploits get found' excuse.

The fact is, JPEG is a globally adopted standard, handled by oodles of OSes and apps around the world - but it is only the way M$ handles it that causes a problem.

In this case, however, to head off a Mac/PC flame war, I will be happy to point out that if folks stick with Windoze, but head off to www.mozilla.org and get themselves a Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client, they might just save themselves a world of pain once this little exploit starts to turn up embedded in emails or on the kinds of respectable website we visit regularly.

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Re: Emails... another good reason to turn off HTML altogether within any mail program, there is simply no use for it. It is terrible net-ettiquette to fire anything other than plain text at people.. anything other than that and you've no idea how it might come out at the other end... or whether it will at all ( Lotus Notes :mad: )

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Or maybe even Opera (http://www.opera.com), which I consider a better browser than Firefox..

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Cheers mate, installed now, still don't know whethere to ditch IE though :confused: BIG think about it me thinks :)

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if i had a penny for every time u lads said use a different browser id have 69 p :)

anyway
https://my.infotex.com/article.php?s...40914224837676 etc one of many until they are patched, much like IE- want to be safe unplug your modem:)

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:Yikes: :shocked: In the old days you could have been given a 100 lashes for even thinking that kind of nonsense ;) :D

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Is it free?

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I belive so, you can find it here

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Yes it is free although it has a small advert that runs at the top of the page, you can pay to remove it though. I have used it for years and think opera is by far the best browser around.

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Can you install google toolbar on it?

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There is a "free" version, but it displays ads in the toolbar. Not too intrusive though and AFAIK doesn't spy on you.

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No, but there is a google search option on the toolbar.

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I take it that ( re. this latest jpeg threat) as long as IE is fully patched and you are running up to date AV there is no real risk? Anyone have any thoughts?Ah.....probem then. I love google toolbar, wouldn't be without it!.......Thats the problem with firefox as well!

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Does opera have built in pop up stopper as google does ? Must have a look at it, see if there's a mobile version .............. be right back :)

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Yes, it does. To use it, go to "Tools", "Quick preferences" then select the type of pop-up blocking you want.

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I suspect that if Google develop a toolbar for Firefox (and they are apparently considering it), it'll work in Opera and Nutscrape as well, as they all use the Netscape plugins..

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opera has a built in pop up blocker.

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Fine until your internet banking applications won't run on it (and the palava of transferring security certificates).

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Quote:
Originally Posted by bopdude
Cheers mate, installed now, still don't know whethere to ditch IE though :confused: BIG think about it me thinks :)


Sorry :confused: I meant have installed the patch not Opera, well not at this stage without reading / finding out more :tu:

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:dunce: Patching of Office is a bit of a nightmare as you need to have all the install disks, I could find the Office XP and Office 2000 disks for both my machines, but the FrontPage 2000 disk had gone awol (since found) and the patch would not install without it.

I think this is to verify you own the software?

Anyone would think MS had designed this bug so they could crack down on dodgy copies of the Office suite.

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All the Office patches come in two flavours - standard lite version and 'full file' version. The office update tool supplies the lite version which need the Office CD's, but if you open the MS security bulletin (more info link on Office update) you can download the full file version (no CD needed). Means you can't easily install multiple patches at once, but it helped me with this patch ;) HTH

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I patched Mandys MS Office and it said I'd need the discs. Didn't get asked for them once! Id say you should try the patches for office and see if it asks for them......

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Only for the XP 02 and 03 versions. I have Office Pro 00 on my desktop and don't feel the need to pay the upgrade costs just yet.

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Link to Firefox in sig... :rolleyes:

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Eh? I have successfully accessed both my online banking sites with three different browsers on my Mac at home (IE, Safari and now Firefox). Only Safari has ever been an issue - it went through a phase of not recognising the certifying authority on one of the sites. But that was a finite problem, months ago, and nothing to do with me switching browser (and it didn't stop me accessing my account, either). I think it's fair to say that using different browsers for online banking isn't a problem.

And I've never had to transfer a security certificate - what's that all about? :confused:

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Banking sites work fine for me too (except I keep on forgetting my passwords and the account gets disabled :dunce: ). I have a problem with an internal site I use at work, but that's cause the muppet that coded it didn't think about testing it with other browsers than IE :rolleyes:

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I know M&T bank in the US does not support Safari, and looking at this http://www.ukbusiness.hsbc.com/publi...nk_reqts.jhtml HSBC does not in the UK (for Business at least). Don't ask, upgraded Motherinlaws mac to X.3 and iLife04, told her she was best to use Safari on this new platform and get called 3 days later as she cannot do any banking anymore. Yes bad programming by the bank, but how do you forsee these things. They make it work for 95% of people (which is pleasing almost all the people all of the time).

HSBC business banking requires a digital cert on the PC you log on from (most personal banking doesn't), so its a bit of red herring to post it here and way off topic anyway.

http://www.ukbusiness.hsbc.com/hsbc/...a-digital-cert

Their credit card virtual terminal (an on line swipe machine) also requires one.

Not sure about their personal banking, but the demo is windoze only
http://www.ukpersonal.hsbc.co.uk/hsb...m-requirements

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HSBC Personal banking doesn't.

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A common issue in the poorly-funded world of the corporate intranet, I'm afraid. We took a conscious decision to code for IE only on ours, as there wasn't developer time enough to test for other browsers (and we have a single corporate software standard in any case). As a believer in web standards, it was hard for me to stomach, but sadly I'm an IT user, not a developer, so there was little I could do to influence that side of the development of it.

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Talking of developers here is a utility that purports to make testing sites with different browsers easier.......scroll down and look at the 'View in' section

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Not sure about older patches, but the WordPerfect converter patch has an Office2000 fullfile version - bottom of attached link -

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

(Search MS Download for KB873380 if link doesn't work)

Of course there's no O2K patch for the JPEG problem.

HTH