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Microsoft releases emergency patch Print
Written by Network News Journal Staff   
Wednesday, 17 December 2008

MICROSOFT HAS RELEASED AN EMERGENCY PATCH to fix a software flaw allowing hackers to hijack Internet Explorer browsers and take over computers.  The "zero-day" vulnerability, allows criminals to take over victims' machines by steering them to infected Web sites.  Users would not have to download anything for their computers to get infected, which makes the flaw so dangerous.

Security update MS08-078 addresses a vulnerability that is similar to one used recently to steal user names, passwords and other information from people playing online games in China.  It has been reported that over 10,000 websites that have been infected with malicious software that can be surreptitiously slipped into visitors' unprotected IE browsers to take advantage of the flaw.

Microsoft typically releases patches for its software on the second Tuesday of each month and rushing this fix to computer users out-of-cycle is testimony to the severe danger of the threat.
 
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