Flutterby™! : Windows vulnerability 2006-01-04 15:49:52.745159+01

Windows vulnerability

2006-01-04 15:49:52.745159+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

In case you're still running Windows, you should be aware that there's a Windows ".WMF" vulnerability that can be exploited by JPEG , GIF, and several other file formats, and there are exploits in the wild that will infect your computer if you visit a hostile web site. The official fix is due next Tuesday, there's an unofficial patch which you probably want to use now if you use a Windows computer on the web.

Other Microsoft vulnerabilities? Well, if you're Chinese Microsoft could censor your weblog.

One of my clients got hit with it on the first day, corrupted his tcpip.sys file which took him completely off-net. I'm now getting it via e-mail, both infected images and links to sites with infected images. - But I'm running PINE for e-mail.. and I check them out with elinks (text mode browser..).

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