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mouser:
A fairly serious vulnerability was found in windows recently which is apparently being used in the wild and can infect computer simply by viewing an infected web page, etc.:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx


an extremely well respected programmer (one of the authors of IDA) has written an unofficial fix for this because microsoft is not responding in a timely manner:

http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html

i've read the description and comments and it seems well thought out and safe (and uninstallable).

I have installed this myself.

Seems safe and can be uninstalled if for some reason you have any issues.  just fyi..

A new OFFICIAL patch has been released by microsoft - just run windows update to get it.
Read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx

(note: it's not clear yet whether people who installed the unofficial patch need to uninstall that first, but safe bet would be uninstall official from add/remove programs list, then reboot, then run windows update to get official patch).

mouser:
more info on the vulnerability:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10651414/

brotherS:
Nasty stuff out there!  :down:

brotherS:
Hmm... after thinking about that a bit I wonder if Firefox could protect you (again).

The article doesn't even mention Firefox, maybe because it's on MSNBC?

mouser:
i dont think firefox will protect you from this.  more informaiton from antivirus company f-secure:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

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