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Zero Day Exploit Found in Windows Media Player

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-to-old-tricks dept.

filenavigator writes "Another zero day flaw has been reported in Windows Media player. It comes only one day after a serious zero day flaw was found in word. The flaw is dangerous because it involves IE and Outlook's ability to automatically launch .asx files. No fix from Microsoft has been announced yet."

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  1. You Could... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just use Linux, as it's not vaulnerable to these things.

    1. Re:You Could... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      You're a total idiot, Linux is completely vulnerable to these things. All you have to do is install wine then install winows media player. Tada windows media player exploits available on Linux boxen.