All of those IM programs (AIM, MSIM, Yahoo's version,
etc.),
are bad. Not only for the "spying" that goes on
with them by
the companies, but they have security loop-holes that can be
exploited. I'd get your grandchildren to just use email.
Or
if some type of IM MUST be used, do some research to find
out
which is the most secure and BE SURE they patch it with all
the
security updates and patches, and use a firewall. They are
probably "wide open" right now.
Remember the old saying, "ignorance is bliss".
LOL! 
Another way of looking at it is if you install what you
need,
then you'll worry less. Some of these things are just
disasters waiting to happen. And we have cyberterrorists to
thank for that.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://OrpheusComputing.c
om
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold B."
Hello again,
I say this a little bit in jest but thanks to Clint (and now
I
see Peter is
also in the Secunia parade), I'm being introduced into a
whole
new "world of
worry" ... as though life doesn't throw any other
curve balls
at people. In
fact, I now boodmarked <http://secunia.com/>
which is telling
me I have to
be careful with Instant Messenger (which I use with my
grandchildren; a
program very popular with kids), and my MSOffice 2000, which
this last
posting says is also in trouble.
Life's been good to me; I don't have problems. What am I
supposed to do now,
look foe them? Again, no offense meant to anyone; both Clint
and Peter are
heads and shoulders above the average people I know and
contribute mucho to
helping others. It's just that there's a bit of irony in
these
reports in
that I enjoy a life with minimum stress and Secunia has
other
plans for
me. --- Harold
>
> TITLE:
> Microsoft Office Long Link Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability
> SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
> SA20748
> RELEASE DATE:
> 2006-06-20
> VERIFY ADVISORY:
> http://secunia.c
om/advisories/20748/
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