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Nasty Windows virus making the rounds
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Camdog




Joined: 08 Aug 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
fyrewulff wrote:
I used to read Slashdot but they're too extreme and slanted anti-windows to even be relevant anymore. They just go for any jab they can get, and a lof times even disproved right in the comments under the article.

The actual exploit is in how WMF works. the explot was a buffer overrun in the function that executes the filetype's associated program, so any program that interprets WMF (ie, Irfanview) was affected. Basically it made Windows think WMFs were a/wanted to run an EXE.


It's even lamer than that. The malicious code is simply defined in the wmf escape() function, which was designed in the first place to run code. It's not a buffer overrun bug, it's a feature.

And at most 1 out of 20 posts on Slashdot are even about Microsoft.
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