Keeping the WMF nasty at bay (MS advisory 912840)

Here's a video of what it looks like to be infected with the WMF zero-day exploit.

NOTE: Microsoft has now released a patch for this vulnerability!  (Link leads to the WinXP version.  Install it ASAP!)

Previously this blog post had recommended unregistering the Microsoft Picture and Fax viewer via this command:

 regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dll

Now that the patch is available, if you had taken the above approach as a precautionary measure then you can re-enable this functionality with this command:

 regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

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# Solving the problem instead of continually patching the symproms

Install Linux or one of the BSDs and stop monkeying with the "registry", and stop worrying about viruses/trojans/worms and other "Microsoft ONLY" computer malodies. 1/2/2006 6:03 PM | waa

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