[Fredslist] RajGoel and Brainlink

[David Stein]

For those of you who overlooked Raj Goel's (Weiner Group) e-mail from this 
morning - GO BACK AND READ IT AGAIN - THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Viruses are a very real problem and won't be going away anytime soon -SO IT 
IS UP TO YOU TO PROTECT YOURSELF

We have worked with Raj for some time, we also have used Brainlink to make 
calls on our customers.  Their response time is under 2 hours and I have 
also used them on the weekend.  They are  efficient and do a great 
job.  Give them a call.

David Stein




>Fellow Gothamites,
>
>         Welcome to 2006!
>
>There is a nasty bug on the net that hides in windows image files. If you 
>open a bad image file in Internet Explorer, it WILL put spyware on your 
>PC. Microsoft knows about it, and there is no patch, yet.
>   You can read all the gory details at
>http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1154914,00.html?track=NL-102&ad=537903
>
>To protect your system, as best as can be done, do the following:
>
>1. Use Firefox version 1.5 or newer for all normal web browsing. (Not
>IE, not Opera, and not older Firefox - all are vulnerable). Set
>Firefox as the default browser.
>
>2. Set Internet Explorer to High security level. This will make some
>pages not work right, but you are going to be using Firefox most of
>the time, anyway, right?
>
>3. Only use IE for web sites that you absolutely have to, AND that you
>can trust as clean, such as microsoft.com.
>
>4. Set your e-mail program to display all e-mail as TEXT ONLY. Do not
>display as html or rtf. Yes, I know this means no more font size
>changes or bold and underlined or pretty backgrounds or pictures
>showing up in the body of the message. That is the point - just
>looking at an infected picture in IE or your mail program can infect you.
>
>     When pictures are attached to e-mail, only save and open those that
>you are sure you can trust. Remember, nonsense or nonsequitur e-mails
>that seem to be from friends can easily be nastygrams. Ask your
>friends who send such about each one before opening the pictures.
>
>5. Don't accept image files in any instant message (IM) program.
>Looking at the bad pictures in those programs infects the PC, too.
>
>6. Keep your anti-virus subscription paid up, and run the update on it
>AT LEAST once a week.
>
>7. Disable desktop indexing programs (Google Desktop, Windows' Indexing, etc.)
>
>         Hope you haven't been infected.  If you have, feel free to give 
> me a call.
>
>-- Raj
>
>Rajesh Goel, CISSP
>cell (917) 685-7731
>CTO: Brainlink International, Inc.
>"IT Crisis Management and Solutions"
>HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley & GLBA Information Security Compliance
>
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