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Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.09.07: Microsoft Windows Mail and Outlook Express NNTP Protocol Heap Overflow Oct 10 2007 08:15AM
Nick FitzGerald (nick virus-l demon co uk)
iDefense Labs wrote:

<<...>>
> V. WORKAROUND
>
> Deleting the all sub-keys of the following registry keys will remove the
> 'news' and 'snews' protocol handlers:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\news\shell
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\snews\shell

If you want to do a thorough job of such mitigation as a Q&D fix,...

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