{"id":139,"date":"2006-01-03T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=139"},"modified":"2006-01-03T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T09:01:00","slug":"the-wmf-vulnerability-probably-affects-more-computers-than-any-other-security-vulnerability-ever-or-why-im-glad-i-use-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The WMF vulnerability probably affects more computers than any other security vulnerability, ever.&quot; or Why I&#039;m Glad I Use Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%26quot%3BThe%20WMF%20vulnerability%20probably%20affects%20more%20computers%20than%20any%20other%20security%20vulnerability%2C%20ever.%26quot%3B%20or%20Why%20I%26%23039%3Bm%20Glad%20I%20Use%20Linux\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1890\/741\/1600\/broke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1890\/741\/400\/broke.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTo those who might be wondering what the hell I was doing posting strange, geeky, tech-head comments on your blogs, or sending e-mails about security flaws, and are checking to see if I had lost my rocker? I can assure you I have not&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Maybe just a little, but that was long ago in a far-away land.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just tryin&#8217; to look out for my Peeps! Dig?<\/p>\n<p>But this is no joke. If you are using ANY version of Windows (XP, ME, NT, 2000, 98, 95, 3.1), you need to download and apply the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/sn\/notes-020.htm\">SECURITY PATCH<\/a> featured in the green box. There is a huge vulnerability in the coding that lets you view pictures using windows. All web browsers and e-mail clients will at various times access this code to perform different imaging tasks. This is a BIG FAT SECURITY RISK that can&#8217;t be blocked with a firewall or anti-virus software. There is more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.f-secure.com\/weblog\/archives\/archive-012006.html#00000761\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote from the previous link: &#8220;Turns out this is not really a bug, it&#8217;s just bad design. Design from another era&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This fix will disable the Microsoft Picture Viewer feature, but there is a safer alternative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irfanview.com\/\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PS. If the Hyperlinks don&#8217;t work, here are the URL&#8217;s from above:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.grc.com\/sn\/notes-020.htm<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.f-secure.com\/weblog\/archives\/archive-012006.html#00000761<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.irfanview.com\/<\/p>\n<p>PPS. If you are using either Mac OSX or any of the Linux OS&#8217;s, you can smile and go on your merry way &#8217;cause this, as is usually the case, does not affect you. I.O.W. &#8211; DUMP WINDOWS AND USE MAC OSX OR LINUX! IT&#8217;S SAFER!!!<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/default.htm\">Loe Laporte, Steve Gibson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/\">Digg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"%26quot%3BThe%20WMF%20vulnerability%20probably%20affects%20more%20computers%20than%20any%20other%20security%20vulnerability%2C%20ever.%26quot%3B%20or%20Why%20I%26%23039%3Bm%20Glad%20I%20Use%20Linux\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>To those who might be wondering what the hell I was doing posting strange, geeky, tech-head comments on your blogs, or sending e-mails about security flaws, and are checking to see if I had lost my rocker? I can assure you I have not&#8230;. OK. Maybe just a little, but that was long ago in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}