New Bad Virus

Microsoft says 'Extremely Critical'

you get it thru the browser mostly, and thru a wmf file.

The flaw is in Shimgvw.dll which is a system component. Therefore, lots of products are vulnerable (including Google Desktop). It is reported to be extremely easy to infect your PC. You don't even need to open the WMF file - just having it on your system may well trigger Shimgvw.dll loading up if it does any file operation on the WMF file at all.

In a corporate environment, it could potentially spread very quickly through network shares.

Microsoft has a workaround: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx

Amuse yourself:
Watch it Spread on the graph on PandaSoftware page
see the last 24 hours worldwide

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