For years, Microsoft has used Internet Explorer to render HTML-based mail in Outlook. That’s all about to change with Outlook 2007. In an effort to increase security, Outlook 2007 will now be using Microsoft Word for HTML rendering. This change means Outlook users will no longer be vulnerable to the exploits that IE suffers from. [...]
Category Archives: Security
Spyware State: Misinformed?
As many of you know, I’m an active participant in the Academy of Information Technology at Dieruff High School. One of the academy’s main function is to provide a service to school, computer repair. Teachers will bring their troublesome home computers to us and we diagnose the problem, and do what’s needed to get things [...]
Rootkits Galore
What could be worse then a virus? A rootkit! Yes, those nasty little pieces of arbitrary code which get weave themselves so deep into the operating system the only way to remove them is to completely reinstall Windows.
This past week my dad has been complaining of slowdowns on his laptop. I initially thought it was [...]
Microsoft Releases WMF Patch Early
Instead of waiting until Patch Tuesday, today Microsoft has released their patch which fixes the WMF flaw. If you haven’t heard of the WMF flaw, it’s a security hole within every version of Windows since 98 (earlier versions still have this flaw, but it can not be exploited). The flaw can be exploited by simple [...]
Don’t Look at the AIM Virus
Over the last couple of days I’ve heard about a new AIM virus. I first started hearing about it online, and today I heard a couple of real life stories. Apparently this virus sends you a message asking “how do I look”. When you click on the link you instantly get infected and start sending [...]
