Re: A Very Dangerous Worm in Windows Metafile Images (WMF)

Rich Grise wrote...
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> The whole thing could probably be nipped in the bud, and most
> viruses, worms, and such, if people could be taught to not do
> their day-to-day stuff while logged in as administrator...

I dunno, while XP home machines are used that way by default,
most W2000 and XP-pro machines are not, yet they're vulnerable
too. Perhaps that's because all execute the WMF code. BTW,
over-writing of system files isn't required to get infected.


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