full-disclosure - Re: [funsec] WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification

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Date: Thu Jan  5 12:11:53 2006
From: infosecbofh at gmail.com (InfoSecBOFH)
Subject: Re: [funsec] WMF round-up,
	updates and de-mystification

Jesus Larry... think its responsible of you as a so called reporter of
the news to be reccomending a third party non-vendor patch that doesnt
even completely fix the issue?  Whitehat rootkit huh?  do you even
know what a whitehat is let alone a rootkit.

Stick to the NEWS and not your fiction.

On 1/3/06, Larry Seltzer <larry@...ryseltzer.com> wrote:
> GE> The "patch" by Ilfak Guilfanov works, but by disabling a DLL in Windows.
> PV> I wouldn't say it does that. If you really want to simplify it in the
> extreme, it hides the vulnerable function.
>
> Think of it as a "White Hat Rootkit"
>
> Larry Seltzer
> eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
> http://security.eweek.com/
> http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
> Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
> larryseltzer@...fdavis.com
>
>
>