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- Firms urged to use unofficial Windows patch
- Firms urged to use unofficial Windows patch...uh, wait a minute...Let me make sure I've got this straight..."A Microsoft representative advised businesses to wait for a week, as the software giant can't guarantee third-party updates will be effective."...er, so does that mean that Microsoft CAN guarantee that its own updates will...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patch, unofficial Windows patch, Windows patch, Ilfak, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
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- IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.
- Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- No endorsement for 3rd party IE patches this time?
- When the WMF vulnerability hit at the beginning of this year, security groups like SANS endorsed 3rd party patches and Ilfak Guilfanov received global fame. But this time, there are no such endorsements for similar patches from eEye and Determina from SANS which offers up some strange reasoning.When eEye...
- Tags: 3RD, SANS
- Blog posts 2006-03-29
- More updates on WMF and back to other news
- Personally I'm getting weary of all the WMF exploit news. But here's a few more tidbits before I move back to one of my favorite topics, rogue anti-spyware.Microsoft's hotfix has been leaked. SunbeltBLOG has some screenshots here. The leak was first announced at Steve Gibson's site, grc.com. The...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Beating Microsoft to the punch
- Beating Microsoft to the punchHmm?I don't get it, Anti_Z. He's talking about open source for his fix code so that people who don't know who he is can examine the code and verify that it does only what he says it does. He's not at least not explicitly making an...
- Tags: Patches, Operating systems, patch management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, patch, source code
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- WMF vulnerability patch and more good news
- WMF vulnerability patch and more good newsIlfak Guilfanov T-shirts will be available before official MS patch ntnt
- Tags: WMF vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Metafile
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- Passive and active fixes available for .wmf
- Passive and active fixes available for .wmfmost users will be passive, plug-and-prayIt can be said, windows is a victim of it's own success. 90% of the windows user base, e.g. "Joe Average", just want things to work and will rarely be proactive in these matters. They will rely...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, exploit, patch, Microsoft Windows Metafile
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- Passive and active fixes available for .wmf
- Watching folks run around "hair on fire" over the .wmf vulnerability, often giving bad advice described by our own George Ou, got me thinking about the process by which we go after all this.There are both open-source and closed-source approaches on display here. The closed source process is passive,...
- Tags: closed-source approach, Microsoft Windows Metafile, open source
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Wait for Microsoft WMF patch, no thanks!
- Wait for Microsoft WMF patch, no thanks!George - get some plural Jolt man...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, patch, Microsoft Corp., unofficial patch
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- Wait for Microsoft WMF patch, no thanks!
- By now, you've probably heard of the unofficial WMF Vulnerability patch by programming genius Ilfak Guilfanov. Some experts say install it now! Others say you better wait till next week for the official patch from Microsoft. Since I've spent a good part of New Years day weekend...
- Tags: patch
- Blog posts 2006-01-04
- Alternative sites for the WMF patch and Microsoft's response to the exploit
- It seems that Ilfak Guilfanov's site is down due to excessive bandwidth use. Ilfak Guilfanov is the programmer who has created an unofficial patch for the WMF exploit, and perhaps the only reliable method of prevention right now. The patch is now available at SunbeltBLOG and at security site...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile, Microsoft Corp., patch
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- Windows flaw spawns dozens of attacks
- Windows flaw spawns dozens of attacksUser mistake?More like checking out those sites mom wouldn't appreciate! LOLwait for it... wait for iiiiit..."Will it run under Wine?"if not, try cedega winex :)Patch coming out when????Jan the 10th?!?!?!Will it run under Wine?obligatory jab ;)Windows flaw spawns dozens of attacksOnce again people are overhyping...
- Tags: Patches, Microsoft Corp., Windows Flaw, Microsoft Windows, patch, attack, Microsoft Windows Metafile, security
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
- WMF vulnerability patch and more good news
- An unofficial patch has been written by programmer Ilfak Guilfanov. It works in my tests. Get it here. Uninstall it before installing the Microsoft patch due on January 10. There's is also a vulnerability checker here. Guilfanov's blog must be getting heavy traffic -- the pages are...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile, Ilfak Guilfanov, patch
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- Protection from critical WMF vulnerability
- Protection from critical WMF vulnerabilityAnyone tried this yet ?I went through the threads off George's blog here but one person says that it doesn't work with the Registry Disable. Also, has anyone actually tried the Registry Disable ? George ?SSDDSame situation; Different day ;)When will it end! ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile, WMF vulnerability, software, data execution prevention
- Discussion threads 2005-12-29
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