If you’ve been smirking because of the latest security problems coming out of Redmond, such as the Windows XP+IE7+Adobe Acrobat/Reader threat. It may be time to sober up. According to PCWorld.com on Saturday, URI-handling problems like Mailto: are also likely to exist in Windows’ biggest rivals: MacOS X and Linux. So, what’s a URI? URI is short for “Uniform Resource Identifier.” A URI identifies a point of content on the Internet, such as a web page (also known as a URL), an email address, a Telnet server, and so forth.

In the Meantime…

…you know the drill. Hover the mouse over a URL or URI from a suspicious source to find out where it really points to, ignore all those dire warnings from “your bank” or from “eBay” that your account’s gone down the tubes unless you click now, and, in general: think before you click.

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Source: Maximum PC