Microsoft WMF vulnerability

[Collins Richey]

On 1/1/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
> >On 1/1/06, R. Quenett <qcal at quen.net> wrote:
> >> I know this is a linux list.  I also know that many of us run windows
> >> from time to time, and this looks serious to me from where I sit.  If
> >> I'm wrong or you disagree, please excuse the noise.
> >>
> >> http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=996
> >>
> >
> >It's definitely not noise, but OTOH certainly to be expected. M$ has
> >created the market for creative viruses by creating an OS that is open
> >to attacks from anywhere anytime. Most of us have spouses and/or
> >acquaintances that are bound to the Dark Side, so it will indeed be
> >[bs]ad.
>
> They don't have to be bound to the dark side.  I gave my wife a Mac Mini
> for her birthday with a copy of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac installed.
>
> Now she doesn't have to listen to me bitch and moan whenever something went
> wrong with her old Windows box.
>

Certainly not a bad idea, but will the MAC run old the old Windows
crappola (ancient versions of Photoshop, ancient versions of Epson
scanner software, etc., etc.) that the typical clueless Windows spouse
has accumulated?

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
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