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Curio
July 7th, 2009, 08:54 AM
New vulnerability found in msvidctl.dll that can lead to complete compromise from remote (pwnage), see microsoft article here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx), registry patch to set killbits is available here (http://www.farkincomputers.co.uk/vidactvx_patch.zip) Secunia advisory is here (http://secunia.com/advisories/35683/).

rik
July 7th, 2009, 17:08 PM
Good Info. Thanks Curio.

Reverend
July 7th, 2009, 21:39 PM
More here (http://www.techzonez.com/comments.php?shownews=26113)

Curio
July 8th, 2009, 08:42 AM
It has the potential to be a biggy - expect spammed exploit code by the bucketload to be coming to a PC near you soon...

...which is nice.
:)

cash_site
August 11th, 2009, 07:41 AM
Is getting the Killbit patch good enough or do you need to run the regfix too?