[OldEarlGray]

"These changes follow the incredible discovery that attackers with nation-state backing hacked the Windows Update utility to spoof certificates and spread the Flame malware within Windows networks"

Hmm. Let us ask the good Lutheran question: "What does this mean?"

Anybody? Anybody? Buuuuhler?

[OldEarlGray]

“All your base classes are belong to us, hahaha” ping.

[Revolting cat!]

That means that your next automatic “Windows Update” could come all the way from North Korea.

[bossmechanic]

It means you should be using Firefox.

[Lancey Howard]

to hijack and take complete control of vulnerable machines.

Wouldn't you notice if your computer was hijacked?
And wouldn't you then just unplug it?

[markman46]

I never do auto updates, I want to see what it is

[dayglored]

HUH? How could anybody be caught out with a cert key less than 1024 bits??

I haven't allowed anything shorter than 2048 bits to be generated in our shop in a couple of years. It's not hard -- just specify the number when making the key.

How tough is that? WTF?

[Carolina_Thor]

Queue the apple evangelics 1...2...3...

[FunkyZero]

Malware can be a thing of the past of you familiarize yourself with and use a program called "Sandboxie".

It's cheap and it works. I started using it after I got sick and tired of having to clean up malware. A lot of times, you sit around wondering if you are infected and don't even know it. Are you? anyway, I got sick of it and I won't use a web browser anymore unless it runs in a sandbox. I highly encourage people to investigate and use this. There is a 30 day free trial... just google the program name.

This is no substitute for keeping your PC patched up to date, but it takes all the worry out of using email or web browsers.

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

[PoloSec]

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