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Old 10-13-2009
popalong
 

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Re: Probable security breech - how do I fix it? -- original was trashed in MS server
RESENT--Original got trashed in MS server

"popalong" <allornufin@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:90DDC55A-6D6B-4702-A984-404983FF8670@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> 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?


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