Better Safe Than Sorry

WMF Exploit Unofficial Patch

Tests performed on various machines protected by up to date Anti-virus applications have shown that they are almost powerless to stop this series of WMF exploits. On top of the previous best practices an unofficial patch has been released. Understand that Microsoft has no hand in this so if it breaks your OS you are on your own. Since Microsoft appears to not have a fix in the works for a long while this patch is likely a good move until an official fix is released.

Remember to first run the command "regsvr32 -u %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll" (without the quotes) from START - RUN. Assuming you get the OK that the "Microsoft Picture and Fax Viewer" was successfully unregistered then run the patch found here: http://handlers.sans.org/tliston/wmffix_hexblog11.exe.