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...Craig Schmugar, virus research manager at McAfee's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team Labs, says that disabling the Picture and Fax Viewer is a good "roadblock," while users wait for a patch. (The downside is that if you don't have another picture viewer installed, you will have difficulty opening image files.) Schmugar also echoes Microsoft's suggestion that users check that their anti-virus software is up-to-date. McAfee and other anti-virus software makers have traced all known attacks to mitigate damage an intrusion might cause...
...Schmugar points out that while the threat is very real, it's contained up to now by the fact that only a small group of websites, well off the beaten path of most surfers, contain the malicious code. "The chances of you going to one of these sites is pretty low," he says, adding, "We're not aware of a mass spamming of this exploit at this time." Still, he cautions, anything could happen. "We'll just have to wait...
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