[TriLUG] OT: www.hexblog.com - a fix for the WMF vulernability.

[Owen Berry]

It affects more than just IE ... Outlook, Word, ... almost anything that
displays images, from what I understand.

Owen

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:10:27AM -0500, jonc wrote:
> Dude,
> 
> Couldn't you just head off this one (and most future browse-related
> problems) by mandating your folks to use FireFox?
> 
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 08:47, Chad Thomsen wrote:
> > I know this is not linux but many of you folks deal with Windows and have
> > most likely heard about the WMF vulerability.  If you are an admin and have
> > not heard of it you need to crawl out from under the rock you hide under
> > more often.  Anyways the fixes are at www.hexblog.com.  This is an
> > UNofficial patch as Microsoft did not create it, but it appears to work.  I
> > say appears because I do not have the time or a spare machine to test it out
> > on but have read many success stories reguarding it.  Happy patching!
> > 
> > Chad
> > 
> > PS.  Funny thing is somebody else is fixing Microsofts problems.