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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."
Quick, everyone! Download an executable from a totally unrelated third-party site with "blog" in its name! Look! I even got the patch in my mail before I knew it existed!
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
regsvr32 -u %windir%\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
Nothing less will do it.
Ah, punishing sucess, the new American Way.
it's ridiculous that such an important (albeit horrible) API is under the control of one company
Yeah damn them for inventing something and popularizing it! They shouldn't be allowed to write software and sell it any more! The UN should control dictate the API that all software is written against!
that shows such contempt for the customers that are stuck with their shoddy products.
Yeah! If only there were other operating systems one could use! But alas.
Man, you're the epitome of a Slashbot groupthinker. Did you take some sort of class?
The parent said "there's nothing better to switch to". He didn't say what's the best OS that anyone can switch to without any preparation. OS X is great for most people. Most people aren't tied into some random proprietary piece of in-house 8 year old software that isn't supported. For some people Windows is necessary, they've been locked in for whatever reason. For many other people, OSX would be a better option. For some people, Linux would be a better option. Maybe he should tell us what he actually does because otherwise we can't give him any recommendations. Although since this is a security discussion, we should recommend OpenBSD as an OS.