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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. You are a bunghole by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and so am I.

    there will be more bungholes after me.

  2. Are you from a swing state? by l4m3z0r · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    If you are would you be interested in trading votes with me? I'll trade one vote in Connecticut for one vote in any of the swing states. Heres how it works, you vote for who I want and I vote for who you want. Heres a list of the swing states and there corresponding electoral value:

    Arizona -- 10
    Arkansas -- 6
    Colorado -- 9
    Florida -- 27
    Iowa -- 7
    Louisiana -- 9
    Maine -- 4
    Michigan -- 17
    Minnesota -- 10
    Missouri -- 11
    Nevada -- 5
    New Hampshire -- 4
    New Mexico -- 5
    Ohio -- 20
    Oregon -- 7
    Pennsylvania -- 21
    Tennessee -- 11
    Virginia -- 13
    Washington -- 11
    West Virginia -- 5
    Wisconsin -- 10

    My preference would be Florida, Ohio, or Pennsylvania.

    1. Re:Are you from a swing state? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      i live in ohio

  3. 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....

  4. 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 :)

  5. mo3 Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    worthwhile. It's or chair, return *BSD is dyi8g It is are there? Oh, We strongly urge codebase became or mislead the hear you. Also, if the numbers. The and the Bazzar go find something

  6. Fix the bloat of Winamp 5 by fresh27 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Winamp 5 is superior to any other version, just make sure you go into the plugins menu and uninstall all unnecessary plugins (visualizations, midi decoder, etc.) I use MMD3 modern skin, but Winamp only uses 6MB of RAM because I got rid of all the useless bloat.

    --
    http://ipod.fresh27.net/
  7. OT: Great flensing pic by cuzality · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    ....
    Fav new Firefox extensions: User Agent Switcher

  8. Re:revenge by leathered · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes but the llama had its day; in Soviet Russia, the llama whips you.

    --
    For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
  9. Re:Damn you Britney! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is somewhat relevant as its about an mp3 player... Free iPods. An actually legit pyramid scheme. There's a Wired article about it here. Check it out.

  10. Re:I'm surprised no one's plugged quinnware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not only does Winamp do ripping, I don't want my fucking PLAYER to rip for me.

    Feature creep is responsible for much shitty software.