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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. Re:Just use windows media player. by name773 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    isn't that blasphemy or something?

  2. Summary of article summary by MobyDisk · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yet another unwanted, unnecessary feature involving Internet Explorer embedded into a program that doesn't need it has a remote exploit. To mitigate this problem, disable active anything, automatic anything, and ActiveX anything. That is all.