Quicklink: Another Reason To Leave Internet Explorer

Posted on Monday, September 25th, 2006

Microsoft is considering the early release of a fix for a bug in Internet Explorer that malicious hackers are actively exploiting online.

BBC

Considering? The vulnerability only means that a malicious website can hijack a Windows PC and install anything they want. Anti-Spyware firm Sunbelt-Software have discovered sites using this vunerability to download spyware, including keyloggers, and adware onto unsuspecting users computers. Aren’t IE users lucky that Microsoft are thinking about releasing a patch before their monthly update, next due on the 10th of October?

If you have IE and are worried, ZERT have released an unofficial patch for the time being. The other, better option, of course, being to get Firefox or Opera instead.

Update (27/09/06): Microsoft have released the patch now, though they still claim that the attacks they had seen exploiting the bug were very limited.

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Comments

  1. 1September 26th, 2006 at 5:02 am

    Yvonne Says:

    ‘Thinking about it’ huh … goddamn I hate Microsoft shakes fist


  2. 2September 26th, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    Hans Says:

    Just get M$ to land on this blog. A bug for every day of the month.

    Cheers to all IE users that might get over this.


  3. 3September 27th, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    Phil Says:

    So they have released the patch early now. I just don’t understand why they normally only release security updates once a month. Surely, as in this case, serious issues do come up which should be dealt with as soon as possible.

    Hans: Sorry, nearly lost your comment there amongst a barrage of Akismet spam! It is worrying that there are so many bugs out there, but mostly when they are a serious threat like this one.


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