"Open Internet Explorer, view a web page that has an image containing the 
WMF exploit, and *BOOM*...your computer is no longer yours. "

Sounds like Microsoft SP2 to me.

Wouldn't you have to go to a questionable website for this to happen?  I have a hardware firewall.  I run ZoneAlarm and Avast (which I understand now scans web pages before delivering them to me).  I keep my internet options set to protect against most of MS's activeX & other failures.  I don't click email links or surf to questionable sites.  I never read (or preview) email I don't recognize in html.  I don't open attachments (even though they have been scanned by Avast).  If someone I do business with sends an attachment that I REALLY NEED (rare), I save it, scan it, then open it.  I run adaware, spywareblaster, spybot s&D, etc.  I don't do music or "free" stuff on my computer and never download screensavers, icons, etc.  I also don't do Microsoft updates, since Microsoft started altering and disabling functions without a word to me in advance and especially since they started sneaking "big brother" pieces of Palladium (now called Vista) in with their "fixes."  So far I've been safe.  

What would I need to do to run afoul of this latest in Microsoft's failures, the  "WMF exploit?"

Anna Summers


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