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New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the happy-new-years-windows-users dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After less than a four days after original mailing list posting there are reports about a new Instant Messaging worm exploiting unpatched Windows Metafile vulnerability. This worm is using MSN to spread, reports Viruslist.com."

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  1. Fearmongering by eddy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What we need now is for someone to find a remote exploit in a popular webserver and combine both exploits into a worm, 'cause then we're all really fucked.

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  2. Re:How do I avoid it? Fixes? by nacturation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's about as helpful as advising tsunami victims that they move.

    For those who want actual advice: http://www.hexblog.com/ -- a fix which creates a hook to disable the affected code. The fix has been analyzed by Steve Gibson.

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