[JoeProBono]

An advance notification of the patch published Tuesday describes it as protection for a "remote code execution" vulnerability. The move follows Microsoft's security advisory posted last Wednesday and updated Monday explaining the vulnerability and suggesting temporary "workarounds" for protection.

The flaw can be used to let attackers steal personal data such as passwords if a user visits a compromised Web site, of which at least 10,000 are thought to already exist. Thus far, the vulnerability has been used primarily for grabbing gaming passwords for black market sales. The hole could, however, potentially also be used to steal more sensitive information such as banking passwords and other private information. ad_icon

Some security analysts had gone as far as to suggest all IE users switch to a competing browser until Microsoft found a suitable fix.

[JoeProBono]

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

"Some security analysts had gone as far as to suggest all IE users switch to a competing browser until Microsoft found a suitable fix."

That's probably the best advice I've ever heard from anyone connected to MS. Only make the switch permanent!!!

[SweetCaroline]

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[rottndog]

DUMP INTERNET EXPLORER!!!

[Blue Highway]

When talking about browsers, there is only 1 for my the big "o".

Oppps, wrong "O".

"O" for Opera.

[ShadowAce]