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Probable security breech - how do I fix it?
Good explanation. Thanks!
"Paul Adare" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:15:37 -0700, popalong wrote: The image hosting service is tinypic.com. The window that I referred to previously, that appears when the user clicks on the posted photo is actually a dialog box. The browse button I referred to is to select images from my HDD for uploading to the image host. The photo that I uploaded and posted in the eBay forum came from my desktop--not from my picture folder. And when I clicked on the browse button, I had access to the entire contents of the HDD, not just the picture folder. If you're confident that my firewall will prevent a different computer from entering my computer, using the above scenario, then I won't worry about this, and won't pursue it any further. Also please advise me if it's okay to upload images from my desktop, or if I should be using a public pictures folder for this. You're getting all freaked out over nothing here and Malke's explanation isn't doing much good. This has nothing at all to do with your firewall, nor can someone from another computer browse your hard drive using the upload control on that page. When you click on the browse button from your computer, it does in fact allow you to browse your computer, that's the point of the control. When someone on another computer, either inside or outside of your network clicks on the same control on the same web page, it lets them browse the contents of *their* computer. There is no connection between what you uploaded, that browse control, and access to your computer. As I said, you're getting all freaked out over nothing. -- Paul Adare MVP - Identity Lifecycle Manager http://www.identit.ca |
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Probable security breech - how do I fix it?
What I was wondering is if I should be uploading to the image host or
message board from this folder instead of from desktop: useraccountnamePublicPublic Pictures Then I could put encryption or pswd protection on the other folders if advisable. "Jim" wrote in message ... On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:15:37 -0700, "popalong" wrote: The image hosting service is tinypic.com. The window that I referred to previously, that appears when the user clicks on the posted photo is actually a dialog box. The browse button I referred to is to select images from my HDD for uploading to the image host. The photo that I uploaded and posted in the eBay forum came from my desktop--not from my picture folder. And when I clicked on the browse button, I had access to the entire contents of the HDD, not just the picture folder. If you're confident that my firewall will prevent a different computer from entering my computer, using the above scenario, then I won't worry about this, and won't pursue it any further. Also please advise me if it's okay to upload images from my desktop, or if I should be using a public pictures folder for this. NOBODY can say what will happen , it`s up to you to decide what you wish . Please let me know ASAP. Thanks "Malke" wrote in message ... popalong wrote: Using Vista 64 bit Home Premium, MSE, and Spybot, Yesterday I posted a pic on an eBay forum using this code a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"img src="http://ixx.tinypic.com/image.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"/a (The only things changed above are some image IDs.) I used this particular image format because the other three I tried resulted only in "link" with an underscore, and this one produced an image. About an hour after posting the pic, I noticed that you could click on the image in the eBay forum post, and it would take you to the image host site. Once there, another window with a "browse" button allowed you to go directly into the files on my computer! I had the eBay post containing the image deleted, but it may haves been too late--about 2 hours after the image was posted. I deleted the image on my computer that used the filename that was uploaded, but I still have the original image from my camera on my computer. I haven't been able to delete the image at the image hosting site. I don't have an account set up there, so there's no password protection. What should I do now? Contact the unnamed image hosting company for an explanation. I wouldn't worry about your own security. You're using a firewall and there is nothing inherently evil about your own image file. No need to panic and go deleting it from your hard drive and camera. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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Probable security breech - how do I fix it?
What I was wondering is if I should be uploading to the image host or
message board from this folder instead of from desktop: useraccountnamePublicPublic Pictures Then I could put encryption or pswd protection on the other folders if advisable. "Jim" wrote in message ... On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:15:37 -0700, "popalong" wrote: The image hosting service is tinypic.com. The window that I referred to previously, that appears when the user clicks on the posted photo is actually a dialog box. The browse button I referred to is to select images from my HDD for uploading to the image host. The photo that I uploaded and posted in the eBay forum came from my desktop--not from my picture folder. And when I clicked on the browse button, I had access to the entire contents of the HDD, not just the picture folder. If you're confident that my firewall will prevent a different computer from entering my computer, using the above scenario, then I won't worry about this, and won't pursue it any further. Also please advise me if it's okay to upload images from my desktop, or if I should be using a public pictures folder for this. NOBODY can say what will happen , it`s up to you to decide what you wish . Please let me know ASAP. Thanks "Malke" wrote in message ... popalong wrote: Using Vista 64 bit Home Premium, MSE, and Spybot, Yesterday I posted a pic on an eBay forum using this code a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"img src="http://ixx.tinypic.com/image.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"/a (The only things changed above are some image IDs.) I used this particular image format because the other three I tried resulted only in "link" with an underscore, and this one produced an image. About an hour after posting the pic, I noticed that you could click on the image in the eBay forum post, and it would take you to the image host site. Once there, another window with a "browse" button allowed you to go directly into the files on my computer! I had the eBay post containing the image deleted, but it may haves been too late--about 2 hours after the image was posted. I deleted the image on my computer that used the filename that was uploaded, but I still have the original image from my camera on my computer. I haven't been able to delete the image at the image hosting site. I don't have an account set up there, so there's no password protection. What should I do now? Contact the unnamed image hosting company for an explanation. I wouldn't worry about your own security. You're using a firewall and there is nothing inherently evil about your own image file. No need to panic and go deleting it from your hard drive and camera. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |