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Looks like it’s not a good day to be Microsoft. Again.

Without directly raising the spectre of another CodeRed-intensity wormflood, The Washington Post is reporting an advisory from Symantec: an unpatched WMF vulnerability is exploited and...

The exploit code, first posted on security mailing list Bugtraq, states that the included Internet address can successfully exploit a fully patched Windows XP system with a freshly updated [Symantec] Norton Anti-Virus.

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Now would be a good time to hide your MS-Windows workstations behind a proxy, and order it to block anything named .wmf, claiming to be a WMF image, or file(1)ing as a WMF, since it seduces any graphical web browser running in BillSpace.

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Leon RJ Brooks said…
Er... no.

Symantec/Norton didn’t detect it. Other virus makers may or may not be able to detect it. Nevertheless, the original vulnerability applies to every Windows-NT-architecture machine on the planet (NT, 2000, XP, 2003), regardless of its Symantecness or otherwise.
30 December, 2005 17:00
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