Email viruses are now spreading WITHOUT
THE USER OPENING ANY ATTACHMENT.
Personal computers running Internet Explorer (IE) version 5.0
and/or Microsoft Office 2000 are vulnerable to virus attacks using
most email systems, even if the email recipient opens no
attachments. You don’t even have to use IE; just have it installed
with the default security settings. If you have not closed the
hole, you can receive viruses (and spread them) by viewing or
previewing malicious email without opening any attachment, or by
visiting a malicious web site. The problem is caused by a
programming bug in an Internet Explorer ActiveX control called
scriptlet.typelib. This is by far the fastest growing virus
distribution problem and ripe for a hugely destructive event - at
least as large as the ILOVEYOU virus. Updating your virus
detection software, while important, is not an effective solution
for this problem. You must also close the hole.
The hole can be closed in five minutes or less using
tools available at Microsoft’s security site:
<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-032.asp">Micr
osoft Security Program: Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS99-032)</A>
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-032.asp
The correction script may be run directly from:
<A
HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm">
Update for "scriptlet.typelib/Eyedog" Vulnerability</A>
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm
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