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Explorer patched early Correspondents Los Angeles SEPTEMBER 27, 2006 |
FROM AUSTRALIAN IT
MICROSOFT has released a security patch to
fix a "critical" hole in its Internet Explorer web browser which it
said could allow an attacker to take control of a user’s computer.
The patch was released two weeks ahead of a regularly scheduled monthly
security update after Microsoft said it became aware of a "public
attack utilszing the vulnerability".
The impact on customers was "limited", Microsoft said
Microsoft typically issues security patches at the beginning of the month.
The flaw rated at critical - the highest level - existed in the coding for Vector Markup Language, or VML.
The
company defines a flaw as "critical" when the vulnerability could allow
a damaging internet worm to replicate without the user doing anything
to the machine.
But I don’t need to worry about it, as Firefox on Linux was designed and built with security in mind.
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