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

[David A. Cafaro]

Actually if a user isn't careful, they could get infected using firefox.
It will pop up as a windows media file and ask if you want to play it,
if the user clicks yes, click, they are infected.  Unfortunetly users do
these kinds of things...

(PS, this is from experience, luckily Norton AV actually caught it as it
was downloaded after the users clicked yes, user:"I thought it was the
video I was looking for...")

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:10 -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.
>