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Thursday, January 05, 2006
New VIRUS Update
ALL WINDOWS XP USERS!!!! PLEASE READ!
If you have another operating system, such as Windows 98 or 2000, let me know and I'll post the fix here for those as well.
Ok. Without me having to explain this to everyone in simple terms, let me inform you of something. There has been a very very bad virus that attacks the windows WMF subsystem released in the last two weeks. This is the single biggest virus threat Microsoft has ever seen.
Microsoft was going to officially release the patch this upcoming tuesday but have apparently released it early. If you do NOT have Automatic Updates turned on for your computer, you will NOT be prompted to get this. If you do, you should already have the download waiting to install.
Either way, if you even THINK you aren't SURE you already have this patch, please please please go get it. If you don't, you're gonna wind up calling me anyway and getting me or someone else to fix this.
You can click on the title of the link to get the fix or click here to go straight to microsoft to get the patch.
WHY This is Important: Basically what this exploit does is allow your computer to download a virus through simply viewing an infected graphic in internet explorer or whatever browser you have. You can also get it by viewing an infected picture in an email attachment. This is NOT a joke and your spyware and virus programs will NOT catch this. Since it's encrypted in a trusted microsoft file format, these programs are not designed to scan for this type of infection. Now, all that being said.. go get the fix.
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And if you have any questions on this, feel free to post them here. Feel free to send anyone you know here to get the link.. or you can search it on the Microsoft Knowledge base... the link goes straight to microsoft.
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