Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2006 22:45 UTC
The saga around the WMF flaw in Windows continues. "A cryptographically signed version of Microsoft's patch for the Windows Metafile vulnerability accidentally leaked onto the Internet late Tuesday, adding a new wrinkle to the company's round-the-clock efforts to stop the flow of malicious exploits. The MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center) acknowledged that a slip-up caused 'a fast-track, pre-release version of the update' to be posted to a security community site and urged users to 'disregard' the premature update."
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2005-08-26
Also note that, according to the SANS ISC, unregistering the dll is not a 100% sure protection, because malware may re-register it.
In the same way that malware can re-register the dll, they can patch it in memory like the unofficial patch does, and still screw you over.