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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: TAP on January 05, 2006, 01:43:31 PM

Title: Advantage from the latest WMF exploit
Post by: TAP on January 05, 2006, 01:43:31 PM

I've seen so many antivirus companies take advantage from the latest WMF exploit such as

http://www.itsecurity.com/security.htm?s=12224&sid=7afa965512b5c3bc975ebaf13c2d1611

I mean to the marketing things, why Alwil didn't do such thing? at least on avast! website so it should make more confidence to common users, we know avast! does protect us against this exploit very well. :)

I've also seen some news on the "Press" section so why it isn't on the front page of avast! website? I think it's better to be here.

http://www.avast.com/eng/press.html

Title: Re: Advantage from the latest WMF exploit
Post by: bob3160 on January 05, 2006, 02:52:04 PM

Quote

we know avast! does protect us against this exploit very well.

We do???

Title: Re: Advantage from the latest WMF exploit
Post by: TAP on January 05, 2006, 03:09:43 PM

Quote from: bob3160 on January 05, 2006, 02:52:04 PM

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we know avast! does protect us against this exploit very well.

We do???

Yes, I believe. At least, according to some test results and vlk's comments.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=18408.msg156671#msg156671

Title: Re: Advantage from the latest WMF exploit
Post by: Dwarden on January 05, 2006, 03:33:52 PM

Avast main page, right bottom , threat section ... what You see? WMF Exploit

http://www.avast.com/eng/wmf_exploit.html

can we say owned? :)

Title: Re: Advantage from the latest WMF exploit
Post by: TAP on January 05, 2006, 03:59:21 PM

Ohhh, I'm glad it's finally there and hope other threats in the future are there too.  :)

Title: Re: Advantage from the latest WMF exploit
Post by: ..::ReVaN::.. on January 05, 2006, 08:27:00 PM

Quote from: TAP on January 05, 2006, 03:59:21 PM

Ohhh, I'm glad it's finally there and hope other threats in the future are there too.  :)

That makes 2 of us  ;)

Title: Re: Advantage from the latest WMF exploit
Post by: polonus on January 05, 2006, 08:42:22 PM

Hi TAP & ReVaN,

With backward compatibility and the way certain codes were multi-program codes the coding bugs of the MS developer team of the eighties, the so called UNDEAD, must be still laying around, waiting to be discovered by the malcreant of to-day. I wonder what other "skeleton" features are being found up in the near future?  WMF must not be the only remnant that still survived?
It better be a good one, and isn't it time for a MS coding overhaul? Read this:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000427.html

polonus

* undead or zombie coder, a hired  coder to do the dirty software coding, mostly underdogs for the big software companies, also name for game coders, in this particular instance a team C++ coders hired to work on this part of the  Windows GUI in the eighties of the previous century