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Critical Microsoft Windows Vulnerability!!!

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Petrie.

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on: January 04, 2006, 08:03:01 PM
An extremely critical Microsoft Windows vulnerability has surfaced and
it being actively exploited on the Internet by virus writers and scam
artists.  This vulnerability gives an attacker full control of your
computer, and could expose any data it contains.  The scheduled release
date of an update from Microsoft is January 10, leaving us critically
vulnerable for the next week.   All Windows versions are affected
including 98, ME, 2000, XP and 2003

Using Internet Explorer to view a web page with an infected image will
cause the virus to infect your system.   Infections have also spread
through instant messaging programs and third party advertising on
legitimate web sites.  Opening an infected file in other Internet
programs may result in you computer being infected.

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This came from my college computing services.  Be careful online until the patch comes out!

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Reply #1 on: January 05, 2006, 08:06:52 PM
Does this just apply to those using IE as their Browser? I personally dont use IE anymore COZ of virus and hacker issues...I use Firefox instead and I dont get any trouble whatsoever...but will the same poblem still persist Roger do you think?

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Reply #2 on: January 06, 2006, 09:43:47 PM
If you go to http://www.microsoft.com you can download the patch for the WMF security bug.  It's right on the main page at the top...you can't miss it.

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