Yesterday afternoon Microsoft released a patch to the Windows Operating Systems to mitigate the new Windows Media File (WMF) security vulnerability. This security vulnerability is slightly different than the virus-type vulnerabilities as it arrives embedded (hidden) in pictures and is more difficult to detect and clean.
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> We encourage you to protect your personally-owned PCs as well by applying the Microsoft security update (MS06-001) to your home PCs.
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> Below is the information on this exploit.
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> EXPLOIT NAME: EXPL_WMF.GEN
> Description:
> If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker, who successfully exploited this vulnerability, could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Additional details about this exploit is located at:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusen ... EN&VSect=P

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to http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/enterprise.htm for details.


To download the PATCh to secure your system Visit this link
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/securi ... 6-001.mspx



> AS ALWAYS REMEMBER.....
> IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL WITH AN ATTACHMENT FROM SOMEONE YOU DO NOT KNOW, DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT. DELETE THE E-MAIL. IF YOU RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED E-MAIL WITH AN ATTACHMENT FROM SOMEONE YOU KNOW, BE CAUTIOUS IN OPENING THE ATTACHMENT. IF YOU ARE UNSURE OF THE ATTACHMENT, CALL OR E-MAIL THE SENDER AND ASK ABOUT THE ATTACHMENT BEFORE OPENING IT. FINALLY, KEEP YOUR VIRUS PROTECTION SOFTWARE UP-TO-DATE.