Well, as Bill Gates showcases the new Windows Vista OS, yet another weakness in all previous Windows systems has come to light. This time it's in the form of an attack using internet image files, especially WMF images. I heard that McAfee issued some sort of press release saying that about 6% of its customers had already been infected - and that's really bad, considering that McAfee is one of the leading antivirus program companies.

Anyway, is this anything to worry about? Microsoft says it hopes to release a patch for the problem by the 10th, so that should hopefully plug up the leak, but is this as big of a problem as some sites are making it sound? Just wondering about your opinions.

Some information on the vulnerability and the patch(es) can be found here.


EDIT: Actually, I didn't read that article closely enough; apparently the problems only extend to Windows XP with service packs 1 and 2 and Win 2003 with service pack 1. My bad.

(Dang, my college got really panicky over this one... >_>)