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New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 1, 2006 @05:50AM 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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Patch ETA? by Limburgher · 2006-01-01 05:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

Looks potentially nasty.

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Re:How do I avoid it? Fixes? by TheSpoom · 2006-01-01 05:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

Don't click suspicious links in MSN messages. If someone sends you one, ask about it, and if they don't remember sending it, they probably have a virus.

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Re:Ah, Slashdot... by ColdWetDog · 2006-01-01 07:56 · Score: 1, Redundant

I was going to comment on this, but I guess it would be redundant.

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