Microsoft recently succumbed to public pressure and released a patch for the Windows Metafile bug earlier than planned. But now Symantec says there are two more .WMF bugs lingering and unpatched. Security experts acknowledge that this worm exploits a documented feature of the format itself, not a Windows coding bug. Microsoft, for its part, says it'll comb through throngs of code to check for other potentially bad uses of the (say it with a straight face) "feature"...

For more about the WMF dilemma:
- read this TechWeb article and this News.com article

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