Microsoft has revised two Security Bulletins dealing with DirectX and upgraded them to CRITICAL.

What is extremely important about this and the reason why I felt the need to issue an alert is that their bulletin MS07-064 was originally issued in December 2007!

For Microsoft to revise this now means that it IS CRITICAL!

Why is this important?

DirectX handles WAV and AVI files among others. We all watch YouTube videos and pass around videos in e-mails. That’s why this is important!

If you do not want to wait for the updates to come automatically, you should go to the Windows Update site at: http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx

PATCH NOW!

written by Admin \\ tags: Avi, critical alert, DirectX, Microsoft, Updates & Maintenance, video, Wav, youtube

A friend just sent me this link to Lockergnome’s site and tells me to look up the “Stupid Internal Microsoft Vista SP1″ post.

So, I did. I don’t know what to say. It’s something you have to see for yourself!

http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/04/17/stupid-internal-microsoft-vista-sp1-video/

written by Admin \\ tags: Microsoft, SP1, video, vista, youtube

One of my students just reported this!

His teenage daughter’s PC was infested with a ton of malware.

After he driller her about where she had been visiting, he found out that she frequented YouTube very regularly. She remembered being told she needed a special codec to view a video. When she allowed the active X control to load is when she began to get the fake security alerts.

Within a couple of days this downloaded 186 different Trojans (the total infections were higher as some had been downloaded more than once), 44 viruses, and 22 worms. After he had removed almost all of them, he rebooted with network still connected and immediately re-infected with nealy 50 more trojans.

Be careful!

Debbie

written by Admin \\ tags: vulnerability, vulnerability alert, you tube, youtube