A new exploit in Windows 10 could allow hackers and viruses to easily bypass your system’s safeguards.

Windows previously used the AppLocker feature that would let users blacklist or whitelist applications.

Researcher Casey Smith discovered that you could get around Applocker if you instruct Regsvr32 to point to a remotely hosted file (such as a script), allowing your system to run whichever app you want.

This change doesn’t reflect in the registry and doesn’t require any special administration privileges.

Expect Windows to patch the exploit shortly, but the only known workaround at the moment is to tell Windows Firewall to block Regsvr32 completely.

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