Computer Tips -Tech Info

Well, I’ve just spent the better part of 6 hours (maybe a bit more) “sacrificing” a virtual machine to the zero-day Windows Meta File (WMF) exploit and all the malware that comes in. I picked one site from the sunbeltblog list to infect the virtual machine with and can attest to it being quite [...]

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There are at least two other workarounds for the Windows Meta File (WMF) exploit that I’ve been looking into this afternoon. These from sunbelt blog.
First up…
2. Change file associations for WMF files.
An equally ugly fix (but perhaps preferable) is to do the following:
1. Go to My documents, Tools, Folder Options, File Types.
2. Change [...]

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The Windows Meta File (WMF) zero-day (0-day) exploit is apparently, VERY nasty, no user intervention required (unless running firefox or opera). Just VISITING a malicous site (viewing a malicious email with image…) would be enough to get the system owned. It sounds as though a FULL reinstall is the best solution. Sunbelt [...]

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There’s more on the WMF 0-day exploit… According to f-secure it’s being used to distribute the following nasties….
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.abs
Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.zp
Trojan.Win32.Small.ga
Trojan.Win32.Small.ev.

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There seems to be quite a bit developing on the Windows Meta File (WMF) zero-day (0-day) exploit which was first reported yesterday. Sans has raised their alert level to yellow in an effort to get attention to this problem. It looks like the original site serving the exploit is down, but now [...]

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F-Secure is warning about ads for a “leaked version” of Windows Messenger 8 beta. There is no public beta of this and it is a virus….
If you download and run BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE from that site, you won’t get a new chat client. Instead, your existing MSN Messenger will start to send download links to everyone [...]

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There’s a joke that many people bring out when new Windows viruses hit big…. it goes along the lines of, “download a fix here” and the link points to a knoppix linux livecd download, or a Mandriva download disk, fedora/etc… Some say linux isn’t affected by as many viruses because it lacks market share, [...]

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All in all, what I’ve documented was a bit over three hours worth of attention to the machine (much more for the full scans, but I didn’t have to stand and watch them.) I didn’t document a sidetrip to a second antivirus scanner. It’s nice to see a system cleaned up that had [...]

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Before I get things wrapped up, I like to scan rinse and repeat until the scans come up clean. So, this scan of AVG gives a chance to delete the archive entry I mentioned the first pass it took. And spybot get’s updated from the internet and re-runs. All looks clean there… [...]

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Ok - about 22 or 23 critical updates for Windows ME. I’m suspecting it’s never visited the Windows update site. While it’s going I make sure that the adware scanners and antivirus scanner get to pull updates from the web as well. It’s also time to scan for running network services that [...]

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