Sophos suggests blocking files with two suffixes, such as ".jpg.vbs", which are used by virus writers to fool users into thinking that a malicious visual basic script is a harmless picture attachment.
A suspect in the earlier case, Jeffrey Lee Parson of Minneapolis, was arrested and charged in late August with one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer. Parson allegedly created MSBlast.B, a variation that differed from the original...
And we want to address those issues in a way that mitigates the hazard, but we also don't want to harm the user experience. And on Wednesday, the company posted details of an alleged flaw that could let web surfers be tricked into downloading...
Last week, German company Heise Security announced that two flaws could be used to circumvent the new warnings that Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, normally would display about running untrusted programs, potentially giving a leg up to a would...
An attacker could use the flaw to do anything the victim normally could, including browse, modify or run files, upload more programs to the victim's system, or send out data from the system, Pynnonen wrote in an advisory dated Tuesday.
In an email message to silicon.com's sister site CNET News.com, Microsoft representatives said the company would continue to modify the technology and would evaluate ways to mitigate the reported method of bypass.
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