Newly Discovered & Immediately Exploited Windows Vulnerability

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A serious new remotely exploitable Windows vulnerability has been discovered in a highly-used and readily exploitable Windows component. The “SHIMGVW.DLL” is used for rendering Windows Metafiles, but can reportedly also be invoked whenever Windows attempts to display non-metafile images as well.

This will help To immediately disable the vulnerable Windows component

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