Monday, December 20, 2004
Are you running Google's Desktop Search?
If so, click on their icon now and choose About. If the version number is 121004 or higher then there's nothing you need to do.
If it's lower thyan 121004, you need to protect yourself against a recently discovered security flaw in Google Desktop Search. It's easy. Just change the preferences for Google Desktop Search to turn off "Show Desktop Search results on Google Web Search result pages". You can turn it back on again when you get the automatic update from Google that brings you up to (or past) version 121004.
This one was a real problem, not like the previous silly reports of "Oh no! Google Desktop Search found one of my files!". It would have allowed bad guys to find out names of files on your machine and little bits of their contents. It looks like the good guys found out about this first, but now that the problem's been publicized someone will probably try exploiting it before all the fixes are in place.
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If it's lower thyan 121004, you need to protect yourself against a recently discovered security flaw in Google Desktop Search. It's easy. Just change the preferences for Google Desktop Search to turn off "Show Desktop Search results on Google Web Search result pages". You can turn it back on again when you get the automatic update from Google that brings you up to (or past) version 121004.
This one was a real problem, not like the previous silly reports of "Oh no! Google Desktop Search found one of my files!". It would have allowed bad guys to find out names of files on your machine and little bits of their contents. It looks like the good guys found out about this first, but now that the problem's been publicized someone will probably try exploiting it before all the fixes are in place.
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