Cecil
We will probably know tomorrow. I still
have 10 to 15 2000 machines. WSUS pushes tonight, so I will know tomorrow. I’ve
been struggling Friday and today with the results of the infection of one
machine, it’s toast. (XP). Reports are that it will masquerade as any
graphics format, jpg, wmf, bmp etc, and the exploits are increasing. It
does not ‘spread’ fast at this point but if you get an infected
graphic it will be nasty.
As I say, I don’t post these things,
and probably get 10 or so user a day sending hoaxes to me. I have not seen
information on the 2000 crash.
Eric
From: KD5NWA
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006
8:15 PM
To: Eric Ellison
Cc: 'Xylo-SDR
Discussion'; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Windows
Update
Proceed with caution, we had several PC's at work running Windows 2000
that got hosed by that patch. All the XP machines were fine.
It didn't crashed Windows, but several applications would not run anymore. We
ended having to re-install the applications.
At 05:42 PM 1/9/2006, Eric Ellison wrote:
Folks
I dont often do this but you might want to go to Windows update and
download the recent Windows Metafile fix.
This is a pretty bad vulnerability and there is at least one WMF Trojan out
there which is a whole lot more than nasty. You dont even have to be
viewing an infected metafile for you to get it.
Sorry I cant remember the KB or patch, gettem all!
Microsoft acknowledged it a little while ago, but just released fix today
Out of sequence since it is so serious.
Nothing catches it on the AntiVirus or Adware stuff, unless you dont have
admin privs.
Eric
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Cecil Bayona
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"I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few
more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ... "