Run your virus and spyware protection.
At 09:48 AM 9/25/2012, you wrote:
Hmm! I am running IE8 on my home office machine and it is behaving strangely
for a few days. For instance, it won't open certain web pages or comes up
with an error message that it will close down. Any thoughts, how I can find
out for sure if it is effected?
Very Best Regards
Waqas
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi
Sent: 25 September 2012 14:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Mozilla Firefox
There was a serious security hole in IE that was discovered recently, and
code exploits were in the wild. It was serious enough that my university
chose to recommend that everyone stop using IE until Microsoft released a
fix for this hole. They even pushed FireFox out to all domain managed
computers at the university.
I've never seen a response like this before, so I thought it was worth
warning a few lists I am on.
Microsoft has released an update and you should make sure to install it as
soon as possible. Your virus definitions would not have helped you in this
case. If you had been lured into going to a maliciously crafted web site,
or hit a legitimate site with a compromised ad on it, it was possible to
have remote code executed on your machine, at the same level of permissions
as the user running IE at the time. Since most people don't set up users
with limited access to their own machine, most people are running with
administrator privileges, so this could be pretty serious.
Again, I rarely send out warnings of viruses or malware, but when I see a
response like this from our security office, I believe it to be a credible
and serious threat.
Again, Microsoft has released a fix and you should update as soon as
possible.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Senior Oracle Database Administrator
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: [email protected]
Tel: (412) 268-9081
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