Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jan 2006 21:24 UTC
Microsoft has officially released the patch that fixes the WMF flaw. The patch can be download individually here, but it is advised to simply use Windows Update. Yesterday, Microsoft said it would not release it until next Tuesday, but two (1 | 2) third party fixes were already available. And to make matters worse, Microsoft accidentally leaked their own patch to the Net yesterday.
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2005-07-06
Would you rather Office and your other applications stopped working because of an early MS patch, or because your machines were compromised?
If your business depended on Office (your internal apps use it as a backend, for example), you'd do better with a patch that works instead of one that shuts down your business. Most corporate networks have AV and other services that already provided a level of mitigation for the WMF issue anyway. Plus most corporate users run as standard users.