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gracie7
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reply to redxii

Re: Windows MetaFiles still vulnerable

and a bit more:

»www.theinquirer.net/?article=28590 : "...you can get blatted if you visit a site with an image file containing the exploit. IE users may automatically be infected. Firefox users can get infected if the image file is downloaded. There's more solid advice at F-Secure. We await a patch from Microsoft.

* UPDATE Ken Dunham, director at iDefense, said the zero day WMF exploitation threat affecting fully patched versions of XP and Windows 2003 Web Server is underway."
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visormiser
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join:2004-02-10
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Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog includes a hack from iDefense that it says should help mitigate this threat by disabling the rendering of WMF files:

1. Click on the Start button on the taskbar.
2. Click on Run...
3. Type "regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll" to disable.
4. Click ok when the change dialog appears.


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