Music can be dangerous
The exchanging of music is can mean not only a danger for the purse of the record companies, it also a risk for the safety of your own computer. Protections experts warn for the concealing of a virus in media truce.
The possible danger came at the lightly after a music truce wash discovers that after opening a number of windows opens with advertisements for a porngraphic website. Although this child of doll-upwindowss are already very boring, becomes it yet more difficult than it malicious code in a media truce stretch conceals. The possible danger is comparable to other cases, in which code stretch processes in a data truce, as ActiveX or Javascript in HTML-truces and macro's in Become-documents. Round of this danger use to make, must a hacker also a vulnerability in a browser use that the code finally exports.
Antiviruscompanies react alarms to the possible danger, but warn for superfluous panic. Temporarily will it only go round a theoretical threat where yet no abuses of have been made in the form of a virus. It will to check thus also yet little meaningfully its media truce already actively on viruses. Who self see to makes round possible contagion, becomes advised round especially the source of the music truce to verifiren.
The danger blows into the discussion about functionaliteit versus safety new life. Microsoft has developed the possibility of URL in a media truce more possibilities for users to creren. But in the light of the promise of the software business safety the most priority to give, crtically will look at it also this possibility. “We a renewed promise have to furnish by Microsoft trustworthy products off. This scenario is added to furnish says to look at at the trial all functionaliteit with as a point of departure more safety and privacy at our users”, Michael Aldridge, product manager of the Windows Digital Media-division by Microsoft.