Looking forward to a future without the past...
Security experts call this the worst threat yet
Published on January 3, 2006 By GoodMorphing In Personal Computing
A flaw, discovered last week, that allows viri and spyware to infect a computer merely by opening an image was recently made worse by hackers who published the vulnerable source code.  A new patch will be out around Jan. 10, but many security experts are recommending people  to use an unofficial patch and to be careful following  unknown links and opening e-mail.  (stuff like this is why i stopped the musical vision threads)
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on Jan 03, 2006
on Jan 03, 2006

OOPS... The statement from microsoft and the patch link that i had placed here was a statement from their last security warning.  I thought that it was too good to be real.  They are all starting to look the same...

To clarify, the new threat is real.  A second comment i posted about a statement from microsoft that included a link to a patch was not current. 

on Jan 03, 2006
Well, you got me anyways.
Thanks for the heads up.
on Jan 03, 2006
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm
on Jan 03, 2006
Thanks, Gary.  I'm all patched up until next time.
on Jan 03, 2006
Patched, rebooted, and hoping this doesn't cause too many 'net outages.
on Jan 03, 2006
Patched...and rebooting...
on Jan 03, 2006
Thanks for the patch yrag.
on Jan 03, 2006
thanx yrag
on Jan 05, 2006
cheers for the patch yrag
on Jan 05, 2006
http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm

MS Hotfix: KB912919
on Jan 05, 2006
www.windowsupdate.com Official patch released
on Jan 05, 2006
Microsoft has released an official patch for the WMF vulnerability. It is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-001.mspx

Is this a new patch yrag?
on Jan 05, 2006

I believe you have to uninstall the patch, before you install the official one from Microsoft.

on Jan 05, 2006
Yep, uninstalled the temp patch ID and M$ update kicked in heard that the temp patch messed up some printing as well hope this as no bugs
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