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How does Windows XP Service Pack 1 limit the exploitation of this vulnerability?

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How does Windows XP Service Pack 1 limit the exploitation of this vulnerability?

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Windows XP Service Pack 1 and recent cumulative security patches for Internet Explorer disable frames in the Restricted Sites Security Zone. Without the ability to automatically display from an email message a frame containing a link to a share that in turn contained a malformed file, the sender of a malicious email would have to hope that the user would click on a link to the share that he or she embedded in a message. I’m not using Windows XP. Could I be affected by the vulnerability? No. The flaw is only present in Windows XP. It does not affect any other version of Windows. If WMA files are used by Windows Media technologies, does that mean there is a problem with Windows Media Player? No. Windows Media Player does not contain the flaw. The flaw exists in the Windows Shell, and the way it attempts to automatically read the attributes of these audio files. Is there a safe way to delete a file that I suspect might have been created to exploit the vulnerability? If you suspect that yo

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