Hey windows folks... Disable any image viewing on email, and keep to well known sites. There is a major hole in Windows that can allow people to take control of your PC via commands embedded in images. The cause is badly designed code from early versions of windows although it is only really a concern in XP and Windows 2003.
My source (and their sources)
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122005.html (the first 5 entries)
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012006.html#00000764
-- Linux is not affected...
J
