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Winamp Skin Exploit in the Wild

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the even-skins-are-dangerous-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Secunia.com has announced an exploit (derived from xml escaping the Internet zone into IE's local zone) that exploits Winamp's habit of automatically installing skins. Currently all versions of Winamp are affected. Details on the Winamp forums - apparently an exploit is already in the wild, and spreading."

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  1. This is absolutely nothing to worry about... by Rahga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since XP Service Pack 2 came out, it's not like any of those Windows machines can connect to the internet anyway....

  2. Just use windows media player. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Windows Media Play works fine.

    Seriously, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer seem to work just fine for me.

    Plus, they all work on my Mac :)

  3. OT: Great flensing pic by cuzality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's a great pic under "Whaling" over at Wikipedia -- sadly, no entry for "flensing".

    ....
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