Microsoft Issue IE Security patch

[acompton]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8469632.stm

[leehack]

Just installed it myself, not seen any problems, wipes all your passwords though, so get remembering them!

[acompton]

We have been hit by a few trojans recently (all caught by the AV) so I'm hoping this is the answer.

[pinbrook]

its mainly an IE6 thing, MS are going against their own policy and releasing this to patch a hole in IE6 which is "End of Life". I think it can attack IE7 too.

Another solution to this is to upgrade to IE8 and accept all MS updates.

[leehack]

I'm on IE8, it updated me, so must be something on all flavours.

[Mike Hughes]

From what I read it does affect all versions. It seems MS have known about it since September and planned to release the fix in February. Brought forward because of the Google / China hack publicity.

Mike

[pinbrook]

I'm on IE8, it updated me, so must be something on all flavours.

i dont have IE on this pc and it updated me.

[leehack]

Since running this, my actinic has picked back up to speed, it had gone very slow moving between tabs. Malwarebytes has reported a few IP blocks too, so something was being tried.