It’s been an interesting day. I saw your security article and thought you might like to be aware this. Here’s a post I made recently in a security forum I frequent called Temerc. Since I use mostly Win9x machines at home, I was forced to find an alternative patch for the WMF exploit. The one you mention above is only for WinXP and related OS’s.

*** From me at http://www.temerc.com ***
Hi all,

Today at work we saw our first casualty due to the WMF exploit. One of my co-workers was foolishly searching for and downloading screen savers. Fortunately our IS department noticed the infected machine probing our intranet. The machine was taken offline and given a complete wipe. My co-worker will now spend a good part of tomorrow re-loading all the special software they were running. It’s a hard lesson, but not nearly as hard to take as the chuckles around the water cooler. LOL

I’m guessing it will be a while before they load any screen savers.

Based on what I saw today, I’m becoming more concerned about this exploit. I went out and loaded a temporary fix I found at NOD32. This one works on Win9x, ME, and the rest. It can also be uninstalled at any time through the add-remove panel.

Have fun!

Clif @ http://clifnotes.tk

WMF Patch by Paolo Monti @ http://www.nod32.ch/en/download/tools.php