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Old October 28th 03, 08:11 AM
Dylan Smith
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:55:07 -0800, Peter Duniho NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.
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Secondly, my comment about not opening a web broswer was simply addressing
the fact that you have the EXACT same vulnerability when playing a WMV file
(if you've chosen to expose yourself to that vulnerability) as you have when
surfing the web.


I dunno, there are some very serious vulnerabilities in MSIE that have
turned up recently - including one allowing a malicious user to execute
arbitrary code as the logged in user (which is also trivial to exploit).

A patch a day keeps the trojans away.

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