Back in the beginning of March we heard about a vulnerability in IE6 and IE7 that offered drive by malware infection.  Visit a website with a certain bit of code and your browsers inbuilt vulnerability will allow the silent installation of malware of their choice.  The Register has heard that this Tuesday Microsoft will be releasing a patch to plug that vulnerability, so if you know anyone that hasn’t abandoned older versions of IE, you should tell them to consider applying the update.

You should also make sure that any emails from Adobe about upgrading your software go unread.


“Microsoft has announced plans to release an out-of-sequence patch, designed to resolve a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

A cumulative update to Internet Explorer (MS10-018) plugs a security hole in IE 6 and IE 7 exploited by hackers over recent weeks. The latest version of Microsoft’s browser, IE 8, is not vulnerable to the flaw, which Microsoft first acknowledged was a problem on 9 March.”

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