update; Security hole, windows xp & 2000, in Internet Explore, etc

[bdpf]

26 Sept. 2006

MICRO$OFT has issued a update for the security hole. Wonders will happen.

Be sure that you reregister the dll before you install the patch, using the run command line script below.

regsvr32 "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll"

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bdpf


Here is a link to the post on slashdot.com;

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/23/2218254

Here is a copy & paste of a comment with the temporary fix... 3 or 4 down from the top of comments.  :s513:


Temporary Fix
(Score:5, Informative)
by gooman (709147) on Saturday September 23, @07:52PM (#16171077)
(Last Journal: Tuesday May 23, @12:32AM)
This Windows exploit is similar to the WMF exploit, and just like it, Microsoft is going to take their time fixing it. If you must use Windows avoid IE and Outlook but that's not always possible.

And to be completely safe you can unregister the .dll as follows...

Copy the following command to clipboard and Paste into Run:

regsvr32 -u "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll"

Then when Microsoft gets around to fixing this (Probably on the next patch Tuesday) you can restore it:

regsvr32 "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll"

Want to bet this code is in Vista somewhere?

Be safe and check it out.

bdpf