On Jan. 1, the Russian security-research group Immunity Inc. told the world that RealPlayer 11 is vulnerable to a serious attack. The vulnerability could let a bad guy run code of his choice on your computer.
Holy cow! One of the two monsters of the Internet is at it again. For all of our newer clients who have not followed my thought processes over the years as to the "Two Monsters" I so lovingly refer to, they are "Google" and "Microsoft".
Keeping your computer safe from security flaws is important, but many people haven't patched their media players and other run-time software: Java, Flash, QuickTime, Adobe Reader, and RealPlayer. This exposes you to infected media files.
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Hope everyone had a wonderful and safe 4th, and you're going "Easy on the 5th".
I also hope that no one has been living in a closet to not know that the most prolific spam and virus monster to travel the Internet in quite some time is making it's rounds disguised as a "Greeting Card from a Friend"…etc.