Big Security Problem Hits Windows, Internet Explor

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Big security problem hits Windows, Internet Explorer



JUST IN CASE you don't know, Internet Explorer and Windows need frequent patching, a software term for kind of fixing things, an awful lot.
Secunia said that there is a highly critical problem with IE and Windows, due to a boundary error which can be exploited by others.

It warns that the hole affects Windows 95, 98, ME and NT 4.0, as well as 2000 and Windows XP.

This is a serious problem and Secunia reckons one way round it is to disable Client for Microsoft Networks for NICs.

This is a bit of a problem if you're trying to share files.



More here: http://secunia.com/advisories/11482/


Source:

The INQ!

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And according to M$ was this problem solved! If you run XP SP1 this should have been fixed, now it appears not to be...

Code:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322857

Shame.
Then again this is according to AMDZone, but it seems to me as they are right (allthough the KB article referred to relates only partly to this problem).