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Posted 03 January 2006 - 12:58 PM

Larry Seltzer at Ziff-Davis writes:

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In a practical sense, only Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (in all their service pack levels) are vulnerable to the WMF flaw. Here's why.
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 11:28 PM

I hope it's OK to post right here. This WMF thing is really, really BAD :thumbsup:
I was just on the Zone Labs Forum, Other topics section.
Apparently a temporary fix already exists, made by a reverse engineering expert :flowers:
His site is overwhelmed, but on Steve Gibson's site you can read about and download the patch to hold us over while Microsoft is dragging their feet:

http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm

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