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Windows Media Player bugs allow full access to your PC (fix available)

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* The Bottom Line...
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This is a Critical Vulnerability.

Windows Media Player bugs- while viewing an online movie or listening
to online audio, Media Player allows an attacker to have full access
to your files and to run any program(s) on your system with full
access privileges.

The following Windows Media Player versions are vulnerable:

Windows Media Player 6.4, 7.1 and Windows Media Player for Windows XP.

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* What You Should Do...
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The complete security bulletin and links to the bug fixes at Microsoft
can be found here:

Windows Media Player fixes

This fix from Microsoft eliminates all security vulnerabilities in Windows
Media Player known as well as those described above.

Download the correct fix for your version of Windows Media Player. To
find out what version you have, start Windows Media Player and click on
Help, then About.

If you would prefer to simply run the updates directly, use the
following links:

- Microsoft Windows Media Player 6.4:
http://apcsnh.com/vacm/wmpa64.html

- Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1:
http://apcsnh.com/vacm/wmpa71.html

- Microsoft Windows Media Player for Windows XP:
http://apcsnh.com/vacm/wmpaxp.html

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*** Be sure to check out the appendix at the end of this alert
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******** APPENDIX - Handy How-To Tips **********

* How To Boot into Safe Mode

Shut the computer down so that the power is off.

Turn the computer on, wait 1 second and begin pressing the F8 key
on the keyboard, once every second repeatedly. Do this until
the Windows Startup Menu appears. If you get a keyboard
error, press F1 to resume and then continue pressing the
F8 key once every second, or your PC may tell you to press another key for BIOS setup.

Select Safe Mode from the Windows Startup Menu, then press
the Enter key on the keyboard.

Windows will then boot into Safe Mode.
NOTE: This may take longer than a normal boot.

At the end of the boot process a dialog box will appear
informing you that Windows is in Safe Mode. Click OK on this dialog box.

Windows is now in Safe Mode.

If you miss hitting the F8 at the right time, Windows will boot
normally and you will not see the "Safe Mode" message. In this
case, start from the top of these instructions until you get the
boot menu screen where you can choose "Safe Mode". This can be
a little tricky the first time you do it.