Another IE flaw

[retrograde]

Well, it's all over the news that there's yet another flaw in IE. Groups are even suggesting switching to a different browser until the flaw is taken care of.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/34842.html

Blah.

[Chilihost]

A quick cut and paste for those interested, the important part being that if you have autoupdate enabled it will have already installed the patch. To verify that you are protected, go to "add/remove programs" and see if you have hotfix 835732 or Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 installed.

More info can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/security/in...load_ject.mspx

cheers!
Luke
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Malicious code, dubbed variously as "Scob" or "Download.Ject", originally posted last week on a Russian website, could be downloaded secretly onto websites using Microsoft's Internet Information Server 5.0. The code could then be used to log keystrokes made by visitors to the site - so long as they used Internet Explorer as their browser. Information, including passwords, was then to be emailed to the criminals behind the atack.

Microsoft said that it was unaware of widespread consumer impact and noted that the Russian site had been taken offline. It said some enterprise users of Windows 2000 Server, specifically users running IIS 5.0, were being targeted by "Download.Ject". According to MS, this is not a trojan or worm but "a targeted manual attack by individuals or entities towards a specific server". It said users should use a firewall, ensure they have the latest software updates and use anti-virus software.

Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, called on users to switch on auto-update so that patches would spread faster.
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