full-disclosure - Unofficial Microsoft patches help hackers, not security

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Date: Wed Jan  4 22:12:25 2006
From: se_cur_ity at hotmail.com (Morning Wood)
Subject: Unofficial Microsoft patches help hackers,
	not security

> everyone knows the best official patch is firefox
> 
umm, no
firefox presents a save or open dialog box.
if the user belives it to be a image he / she is
intended to view, they will simply "open".
thus, windows gladly passes the extention
handler to WMF, game over.
or, they will "save" and simply passing the
mouse over the icon will trigger the exploit,
again... game over