[pmwiki-users] Re: WMF vulnerability in Windows systems

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Robin wrote:

> On Monday 02 January 2006 17:00, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > There are literally millions of Windows systems vulnerable to this
> > exploit, and Microsoft has not yet provided a patch.
>
> Apparently they are providing a hotfix for this, as the next Patch Tuesday 
> is a while away I think. In the interim, Windows users should either 
> avoid using IE (preferably for good ;)

Unfortunately, using an alternative browser doesn't necessarily protect
you. You can get into trouble here with many other browsers (versions) as
well. It's the actual showing of the image that's the problem :-(

/C

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