I know, Sherry.  But try to teach that to all the users.  I still have a few 
who think the monitor IS the computer.  

Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:54:41 -0500
Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

IE Tabs will work for just about everything IE in FF.....

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:51 AM, paul chinnery <[email protected]> wrote:






Same here.  (I so wish we could use FF but a couple of our apps won't run if we 
do so I have to be content with using it myself.)

Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:29:13 -0400
Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]


Yes, on several XP machines. So far nothing is broken, at least. 


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, J Kyo <[email protected]> wrote:

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
 
 
 
 


 




 

        
        
 
        


 

        
        
 
        

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