Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Another Phishing Email ---

Several reports received from users receiving an email claiming to be from Microsoft and talking about the Microsoft Services Agreement...and asking users to click on links.

This article from Computerworld has more details:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230858/Rogue_Microsoft_Services_Agreement_emails_lead_to_latest_Java_exploit


If something looks suspicious, never click on a link. Research it, ask someone or call the source but do not email back or use the phone numbers listed on the email and do not log into your account from within a suspicious email.

Fix available now for Java

There's a new download that will now address the issues reported last week on Java version 7 product.

See the article here for more info
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230786/Oracle_s_emergency_Java_patch_blocks_zero_day_exploits_researchers_confirm?taxonomyId=17

Here's a link to the download of the latest version of Java which is now available :
http://java.com/en/

when you download this please watch for OPTIONAL programs wanting to download and UNCHECK those boxes if you do not want to download them.