Entries with tag "vulnerabilities"

An important warning about the Windows WMF exploit

Posted on January 2, 2006 at 8:40 AM in 'Miscellaneous' with tags 'microsoft, vulnerabilities, virus'

You may or may not have heard about the WMF vulnerability that was discovered a few days ago in Windows. Odds are, you haven't. The media isn't really talking about it yet, which is unfortunate, because this is a pretty big one. All versions of Windows are affected, there are already dozens of different exploits in the wild, and Microsoft has not released a patch, nor is it likely they will for another week or more. I hate posting something here that feels a lot like those 'virus warning' forwards you hate getting from your more wide-eyed friends, but this is important and nobody seems to have heard about it. There's a FAQ available here.

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