Friday, September 29, 2006

Important IE and Windows Patch


Details: Buffer overflow in Vector Markup Language (VML) library file used by Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook.

Description:
Using IE and Visiting a website with the file will automatically download malware onto your computer without your knowledge. Even an Up to date patched machine can be infected. As of a few days ago, Microsoft released a patch available at update.microsoft.com
or http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/925568.mspx
Be sure and update your computer if you are running Windows XP.

A demo video of what the Vulnerability can do to your machine
is available at this website.

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