http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/02/windows-98-and-the-wmf-exploit/ and Internet Security, Windows, Linux, Mac and other Tech Info from Avery J. Parker Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:53:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/02/windows-98-and-the-wmf-exploit/comment-page-1/#comment-74 blogx » Blog Archive » WMF + M$ = Linux Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:51:30 +0000 http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/02/windows-98-and-the-wmf-exploit/#comment-74 [...] At least there is a litle comfort in that “in a practical sense, only Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (in all their service pack levels) are vulnerable to the WMF flaw.” as outlined by Larry Seltzer. Others have tested, and I have landed on a page myself with an Iframe and the wmf file on it, with no worries as that sort of file is not opened natively on my trusty Win98 or Linux box. Even programs that I use all the time like Irfanview are not affected according to some sources, which makes sense, as it uses it’s own methods of interperting a file header. [...] [...] At least there is a litle comfort in that “in a practical sense, only Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (in all their service pack levels) are vulnerable to the WMF flaw.” as outlined by Larry Seltzer. Others have tested, and I have landed on a page myself with an Iframe and the wmf file on it, with no worries as that sort of file is not opened natively on my trusty Win98 or Linux box. Even programs that I use all the time like Irfanview are not affected according to some sources, which makes sense, as it uses it’s own methods of interperting a file header. [...]

]]> http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/02/windows-98-and-the-wmf-exploit/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Mark Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:51:02 +0000 http://www.averyjparker.com/2006/01/02/windows-98-and-the-wmf-exploit/#comment-73 No problems with Win98 and Linux here, thank goodness that XP and Vista are for rich people and not us po' folk that had to save for months to get a machine with 256MB of RAM and Pentium processor running at less that 500Khz. No problems with Win98 and Linux here, thank goodness that XP and Vista are for rich people and not us po’ folk that had to save for months to get a machine with 256MB of RAM and Pentium processor running at less that 500Khz.

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