, 2006-01-04
A few hundred million Windows XP machines lay vulnerable on the Web today, a week after a zero-day exploit was discovered. Meanwhile, new approaches and ideas from the academic world - that focus exclusively on children - may give us hope for the future after all.
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Zero-day holiday
2006-01-04
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Not a real solution
2006-01-05
Mike Warot (1 replies)
Mike Warot (1 replies)
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122005.html
Click Start, then select run...
to block reading WMF files:
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regsvr32 -u %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll
to restore reading of WMF files:
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regsvr32 %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll
Fix #2:
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"Ilfak Guilfanov isn't just anybody. He's the main author of IDA (Interactive Disassembler Pro)."
http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html
His patch is meant to be just a temporary patch until Microsoft produces one of their own. Before applying Microsoft's patch, be sure to remove Guilfanov's patch through the Add / Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
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