Roger writes: : fyi: For users of Irfanview. : : "Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in IrfanView's Formats : plug-in, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a : user's system. : : For more information, refer to: : http://secunia.com/advisories/34525/"; thanks for the heads up on that for those looking for a fix refer to irfanview's pages where it states "FORMATS - (version 4.23): allows IrfanView to read some rare image formats. (Formats: PSP, G3, RAS, IFF/LBM, BioRAD, Mosaic, XBM, XPM, GEM-IMG, SGI, RLE, WBMP, TTF, FITS, PIC, HDR, MAG, WAD, WAL, DNG, EEF, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, SRF/ARW, PEF, X3F, CAM, SFW, YUV, PVR, SIF)" so the problem is opening this particular image format - personally, I've chosen which filetypes I want irfanview to open, and restricted it to the filetypes I use mostly, jpg, jpeg, TIF, BMP, etc as well as those video types I use the easy fix is to open Irfanview's settings dialogue box and deselect irfanfiew as the default viewer for this file type. Alternatively, the new plugin pack version 4.23 http://www.irfanview.net/plugins/irfanview_plugin_formats.exe "fixes possible crash in loading of very large XPM images"
