Serious Flaw in Microsoft Metafile Interpreter

TAKE HEED
ON THIS WARNING

Before reading any further, you may be doing yourself at great justice by going to Steve Gibson's Security website to get the patch for this new threat. Just click on this text.

Of course, if you are like myself, you should not download every patch that comes flying your way...First, listen to the podcast where Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson discuss this current FLAW in detail. Here is the LINK for the show.

According to TechSpot they are warning people not to open sites you do not trust with *wmf file extensions. These extentions are Windows Meta Files that are used for file exchange and device support that are "a widely used format associated with Microsoft Windows.

Firefox and Opera users can get infected. All Windows operating systems are not cleared, XP users are at the top of the warning, however as SecurityFocus posted: "Microsoft Windows XP is considered to be vulnerable at the moment. It is likely that other Windows operating systems are affected as well.

The IRONIC thing about this is the original culprit: MICROSOFT. A visit today to their official website, the first thing you see is a nice flower with sunglasses on and smiling and text floating in and about the nice blue sky telling us to "Start having fun". No mention of the terrible screwup flaw that is hot on the presses all-over-the-world today. Even when you go deeper in the Microsoft's website, click on the Security button and guess what? Yep we have: No Warning.
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