Windows Mail bug may compromise security on Vista PCs

The good news is that it will not affect me since my trusty old Pentium 4 clone PC is still running on Windows XP Professional. The new vulnerability opens up the possibility for an attacker to send an email with a malicious link. When the link is clicked by the email recipient on a PC running Vista, it will execute a program on the personal computers without warning. The possibilities to inflict damage on your computers are endless, including but not limited to, loss of personal information, damage to your files stored on the local hard disk and so on.

Windows Mail is the successor to Outlook Express, Microsoft’s free e-mail client, and ships with Vista. The risk however is mitigated due to the fact that Vista is not widely accepted and used, yet, a fact that Microsoft has to accept with a pinch of salt.

Read [CNet News.com]