New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability

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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happy new year!

[minus_273]

My prediction: in 2006, MS innovation will lead the way in new fronts!

Re:Macs

[hahafaha]

First of all your comment is largely off-topic, causing mine to be as well, but I am only responding to this because I could not bear to read what you wrote and not answer (Mods, please be compassionate!)

You are addressing to largely unrelated issues as one, Freedom of software, and usefulness of the company. Allow me to address them seperately.

The former (Freedom) is a much bigger problem with Windows than Macs, at least with Mac OSX. Sure, they both use proprietary code, but at least Mac OSX uses some Free software.

The latter (usefulness) is very subjective. No doubt Microsoft would think they are useful, while Apple thinks they are. As much as I do not like Microsoft, I am going to have to say that it *and* Apple were both useful, if not so much now. They did start a revolution of computing at home. Unfortunately, it has taken a bad path over the years, but it is the same sort of idea.

As a final note I would like to ask, why did you think you would get +5 funny? I find nothing funny about what you wrote.

Heh... yeah.

[Ayanami Rei]

I think switching OSs is a less difficult proposition for someone who has time to read slashdot than picking up your family and moving is for someone who can barely feed his or her own kids.