Does avast protect against this? Microsoft Security Advisory (935423)

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Does avast protect against this yet?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935423.mspx

Microsoft Security Advisory (935423)
Vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling
Published: March 29, 2007

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks exploiting a vulnerability in the way Microsoft Windows handles animated cursor (.ani) files. In order for this attack to be carried out, a user must either visit a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to exploit the vulnerability or view a specially crafted e-mail message or email attachment sent to them by an attacker.

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Yes there are a couple of topics about this already and a new signature released, also see, http://www.avast.com/eng/vps_history.html look/search for Win32:Ani- and a suffix plus [Trj].

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See here:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=27426.msg223441#msg223441