Re: WMF Vulnerable Systems

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

From:                   "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date sent:              Mon, 2 Jan 2006 21:48:03 -0500

> I just created a fresh Windows 98SE system, no updates. Of course it doesn't
> have Picture and Fax Viewer, but I opened a known-malicious WMF file with Paint
> and got this message:

I'd suspect that Paint is a bad choice.  Since it has to deal with the graphics 
themselves, it is far less likely to rely on an external system call to render them, 
and, in any case, would want to read the file first to ensure that it could deal with 
it, before rendering it.  Would have expected better with IE, but not if it wasn't 
associated.

Have you tried viewing the file with XNView or similar viewer?

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