From: Ellen K. 

On checking out of hotmail one is taken to MSN.  A few days ago there was
an ad there for 7-Up saying it is now made without artificial ingredients. 
I rarely click on ads but this was interesting to me, so I clicked on it...
got a message asking if I want to download Flash, I clicked no... blank
screen.  On the subsequent popup asking me to evaluate the ad I explained
that I couldn't see it because I didn't have and don't want Flash and there
was no non-Flash version of the site. (There is actually an old version of
Flash on this computer, but no Flash on my computer at work, which is where
this happened.)  This will probably have about as much effect as a single
snowflake in August, but...

On Wed, 24 May 2006 06:57:45 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>I find it sad. By now, anyone with half a brain should've pretty much dumped
>ActiveX (and Flash) from websites. I guess the key here is "with half a
>brain"...
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>
>"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4473c60c{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Does anyone but me find it funny that I have to click
"NO" to two activeX
>> control to view the articles about security?
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:4473a075$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1966009,00.asp
>>>
>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1965042,00.asp
>>>
>>> Symantec's DeepSight team said the exploit successfully executes
>>> shellcode
>>> when it is processed by Microsoft Word 2003. The malicious file caused
>>> Microsoft Word 2000 to crash, but shellcode execution did not occur.
>>>
>>> As a temporary mitigation method, Symantec is recommending
that Microsoft
>>> Word document e-mail attachments be blocked at the network perimeter.
>>> "Furthermore, extreme caution should be exercised while processing
>> Microsoft
>>> Word attachments received as an unexpected e-mail
Attachment," company
>>> officials said.
>>>
>>> This looks like something that was being aimed at industrial and
>>> defense/intelligence espionage by the Chinese commies.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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