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Microsoft To Issue Emergency IE Patch

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft will release its emergency patch for Internet Explorer on Thursday, the company said, as it also admitted that attacks can be hidden inside rigged Office documents. 'We are planning to release the update as close to 10:00 a.m. PST as possible,' said Jerry Bryant, a program manager with the IE group. Microsoft has updated the security advisory it originally published last week when it acknowledged a zero-day IE vulnerability had been used by hackers to break into the corporate networks of Google and other major Western companies. Google has alleged that the attacks were launched by Chinese attackers. Subsequently, security experts have offered evidence that links the attacks to China."

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  1. Q: what do you call 250,000 dead haitians? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    A: A good start!

  2. Yikes by goldaryn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Affected Software
    Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
    Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3
    Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2
    Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
    Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2
    Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems
    Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2
    Windows Vista x64 Edition, Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2
    Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems and Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2
    Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems and Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service pack 2
    Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2
    Windows 7

    "Windows 7: with multi-core optimisations and improved app performance, be compromised faster than ever before!"

    1. Re:Yikes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Yeah. Whatever. I'm waiting for someone to clone NTKernel. Just think, Windows XP - Open Source version. Hey - they did it with NTFS, just a little more work, and we can have the kernel.

      Seriously - XP might be a decent system, if it were released OPEN SOURCE, so that people are motivated to contribute vulnerabilities and fixes.

      That already exists: ReactOS.

  3. While I welcome the patch.... by MtViewGuy · · Score: 2, Informative

    ....I've already moved on to using Firefox 3.5.7 and Chrome 3.0.195.38 as my primary web browsers. The reason is simple: IE 8.0 is dog slow at times in web page rendering.

  4. Re:Define Emergency by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Informative

    Literal answer: Microsoft classes anything that's not released on Patch Tuesday as an emergency (aka "out of band", but potaYto, potaHto) patch.

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