Re: any script to find renamed wmf files?


~greg wrote:
> found a description of Microsoft Windows Metafile format.
> here:
>
> http://www.whisqu.se/per/docs/wmf.htm
>
>
> However I don't know exactly what shimgvw.dll
> (or gdi32.dll, or whatever else is inovlved)
> is looking for that makes it decide
> that a .jpg or .gif is really a .wmf,
> and then "run" it.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
>
> "~greg" <g_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ZNSdnXTr08wzwCTeRVn-jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > A whole lot of people right now, running Windows,
> > need a script to check all the image files already on their
> > hard drives to see if any of them are actually renamed .wmf files.
> >
> > It should be trivial to write this,
> > -if you know what to look for in the files.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't.
> >
> > ~
> >
> > (i ask this here, because perl is my preferred language,
> > and because i think perl users in general may be
> > more familiar with looking inside files
> > to determine actual file type (?))
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
I am afraid that you have completely missed the point of this whole wmf
issue:
Your existing wmf files are ok if your Windows has not already been
infected. The bad ones come from outside. So the work-around never
calls for renaming files. Instead you unregister the dll file.
Perl won't help you for that matter.

.

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