Big security issue with IE/Windows XP

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Pretty Ugly

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16074/info
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/new-exploit-blows-by-fully-patched.html

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122005.html#00000752

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=972


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[Brian]

I had that happen to my system about 4 months back. All I could do is reinstall windows. I spent a week trying to fix it.

[exciv2000]

The one on F-Secure a customer of mine had and I beat it in 3 hours.

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The one on F-Secure a customer of mine had and I beat it in 3 hours.

I'm sure, that particular one doesn't seem too bad. But the real issue here isn't that virus, its how it got on the machine, theres a big flaw in the way the software handles those files.

[Brian]

I had the one at the second link. Nearly impossible to get rid of that sucker. Even replaced all the related files.

[M@]

It's happened to me, had it cleaned out in a couple hours after I figured out how to do it.

[sbiggi]

That was partially patched in the November security patch release, MS05-053

I suspect they will have a patch out next Tuesday for this..... or ealier since it is a critical threat, but I havent heard anything.

[sbiggi]

Patch is out. Ms06-001