New Critical Bug In All Current Windows Versions

Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft is warning its users about a dangerous flaw in the way that Windows handles certain MHTML operations, which could allow an attacker to run code on vulnerable machines. The bug affects all of the current versions of Windows, from XP up through Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Microsoft issued an advisory about the MHTML vulnerability, which has been discussed among security researchers in recent days. There is some exploit code available for the bug, as well. In addition to the advisory, Microsoft has released a FixIt tool, which helps mitigate attacks against the vulnerability in Windows."

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[Hylandr]

Hi MR AC! If you would have read TFA or even TFS (I know I know, but I got bored) you would see they provide a link to The MSFT "fix it for me" page for this problem. Just click on "fix it for me" run the fix it, and that's it. Don't even need a reboot.

I'm sending the link to my customers and family now, and since it makes a restore point before applying it is easy to undo if you need to, although with previous "fix it for me" tweaks that I've run the MSFT patch released later took care of the fix it tweak before applying the patch.

Oh I so trust Microsoft to not have any ill intentions regarding previously undocumented operations. And remember those disgusting and insulting commercials from MS for the "release party" for the latest os? Yea the above quote doesn't smack of that at all...

From the Software company that still refuses to acknowledge Back Oriface was a threat to "Here, take this pill trust us" .

F You Microsoft.

- Dan.