IE security problem

[DenGar]

New Vulnerability Found in Every Single Version of Internet Explorer. Be sure to see this link to Microsoft.

[HansV]

Thanks! From the Microsoft article:

An attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit this vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website. (...) In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force users to visit these websites. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to visit the website, typically by getting them to click a link in an email message or Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's website.

As always, be careful which websites you visit, and don't click links in e-mails if you're not sure about them.

[DenGar]

Homeland Security: Don't use IE due to bug. According to the article, "Because the hack uses a corrupted Adobe Flash file to attack the victim's computer, users can avoid it by turning off Adobe Flash." "The attack will not work without Adobe Flash," FireEye said. "Disabling the Flash plugin within IE will prevent the exploit from functioning."

[JoeP]

Already fixes available. If you have a version of IE which does not have an integrated version of Flash go to the Adobe website and update Flash. If you are using IE 11 on Win 8/8.1 use Windows Update.

Joe

[HansV]

See Update: Flash Player 13 released for direct download links.

[HansV]

Microsoft has released an update for Internet Explorer. It even works on Windows XP.

If your computer is updated automatically, you don't need to do anything, otherwise you're strongly advised to open Windows Update and let it search for updates.

[PJ_in_FL]

Microsoft has released an update for Internet Explorer. It even works on Windows XP.