Critical Security Warning Issued.

Back door in Microsoft Windows products allow programs to run on your computer, without you knowing, just by visiting a web site!

Steve Gibson from GRC, a security specialist, announced on the podcast “Security Now 22: The WMF Backdoor” his findings regarding what he believed was an intentional back door to all flavors of Microsoft Windows 2000, and Windows XP.

I highly recommend that you install the critical patch issued by Microsoft immediately! Stop reading this article, fire up your automatic update, or go to microsoft to get the update.

Stay tuned to this story. I’m sure we haven’t heard the end of it!

Here is the text from the Security Now! on the This Week In Tech website.

Flash: Steve Gibson has been working with the WMF vulnerability and is now convinced that this is an intentional backdoor into Windows added by Microsoft.

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Microsoft has patched the WMF vulnerability in Windows 2000 and XP, but in his research for a fix for Windows 95/98/Me Steve has come up with a blockbuster. It is his considered opinion that the WMF vulnerability could not have been a mistake. It was an intentional backdoor inserted into Windows by Microsoft for reasons unknown. Listen for details.

Steve also hosts transcripts, show notes, and a 16kbps version of the show for the bandwidth impaired at grc.com.