I used it on my personal machine. I also created a reg file with all the recommended kill bits set from the advisory. The Fix It tool should do the same thing but I can pass the reg file along if anyone wants it too.
- Andy O. ________________________________________ From: J Kyo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild Curious if anyone has used the "Microsoft Fix It" from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: Recommendation from MS is to set the killbits everywhere. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx Carl From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild Seems to be XP / Windows Server 2003 only? Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: Alex Eckelberry [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 7 July 2009 5:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New IE zero day exploit in the wild Our labs have confirmed this and it is quite nasty. Best bet for now is to set the killbits. Or don't use IE. Some references: Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx SANS: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6733 I would take this one quite seriously. Alex ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
