[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"The internet is going to be a might plain looking place without any graphics..."

My understanding is that this vulnerability is in WMF graphics, which are an oddball format that only Winblows supports.

Turn off WMF support.

[dinodino]

My understanding is that, because of the way Windows core components operate, the exploit can be enclosed in any sort of image file--JPEG or GIF, for example.

[steve-b]

My understanding is that this vulnerability is in WMF graphics, which are an oddball format that only Winblows supports. Turn off WMF support.

That won't protect you -- Windows recognizes any file with a certain header within the file as a WMF and processes it accordingly even if the file name doesn't end in ".WMF".