Re: Any News if Opera is vulnerable to the Windows Metafile Worm?

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Opera is vulnerable to EVERY and ALL viruses, worms, and trojans.
Much worse than IE.  Opera is a piece of shit.  Avoid at all costs !

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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:15:02 -0800, Mike Monett
<gqtacfwfjfmx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>To All,
>
>Does anyone know if Opera 8.51 is vulnerable to the new WMF worm released 
>last night?
>
>Here is some info:
>
>"wmf (windows media file) critical security threat, etc. etc. 
>Watch out for WMF's on bad web sites. On Firefox, you at least have to 
>click something for it to happen. On IE it infects automatically."
>
>http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?p=143053
>
>New IM Worm Exploiting WMF Vulnerability 
>Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 01, @12:50PM
>from the happy-new-years-windows-users dept. 
> 
>An anonymous reader writes "After less than a four days after original 
>mailing list posting there are reports about a new Instant Messaging worm 
>exploiting unpatched Windows Metafile vulnerability. This worm is using 
>MSN to spread, reports Viruslist.com."
>
>http://slashdot.org/#main-articles
>
>Please post any info here. Thanks.
>
>Mike Monett