Waiting for patch for the Windows WMF hole

If you don’t live somewhere without Windows, you must have heard about the WMF vulnerability by now. (That is, unless you haven’t heard about it, of course.)

Anyway… the suggested action, according to the bulletin and other sources like SANS, is to unregister Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Shimgvw.dll). I guess it makes things more secure, but there’s something that it breaks: in Windows Explorer folder view, when the view type is Filmstrip or Thumbnail, the thumbnails and previews of images are no longer displayed. This is kinda annoying since I sometimes work with graphics and came to sort of rely on that function to gain an overview of the folder contents containing graphics files. Now it doesn’t work.

When the official patch is out, it’d better fix this, or else.

UPDATE: Patch is out together with unofficial info about how to re-register the image preview DLL. MS site doesn’t have info about how and why to re-register the DLL. Hurrah SANS, boo MS.