Paul Howarth wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 11:10 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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So, what is my "vulnerability"?
This is a serious question.
Nobody knows what vulnerabilities there may be. That's why it's
important to have multiple layers of security.
A vulnerability has recently been discovered in part of the
image-handling code that's used in Explorer. Suppose a similar
vulnerability existed in Mozilla. A carefully crafted image on a website
you visited could result in your mozilla running a cracker's code. That
could run a process that sat around on your system and periodically
logged on to an irc channel to collect jobs to run, such as send out a
bunch of spam or even worse. So never assume you are safe.
I don't assume that I am safe. I want to know what my vulnerability is.
Apparently, you don't know, either, and can't answer my question.
Thanks for the response, though.
Mike
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