The weakness in Internet Explorer

Microsoft warned of a gap weakness in Internet Explorer 6.7 browser, and 8. Gap has the potential to be exploited malicious people to smuggle malicious programs when visitors access the site dangerous.

Patch to close the vulnerability is being developed. Despite the critical status, there are no plans from Microsoft to update its emergency. So far, the gap has not been exploited irresponsible party.

"Until now, the impact of the weakness was still very minimal and we have not seen any consumers who become victims or active attacks, addressed to its users," said Caelene Chmaj, a spokesman for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), Microsoft's official blog on Wednesday ( 12/22/2010). He said, however, it continues to monitor these weaknesses and to update as soon as possible.

This weakness was first reported several weeks ago by a French security company, Vupen, which was found in the HTML engine in Internet Explorer (IE).

IE7 and IE8 users may have a smaller chance to be a victim because this browser Protected Mode feature that will ask for permission to users if it will do the installation programs, launch applications, or modify the operating system components.

Microsoft emphasizes prevention to professional users. They suggested using the Enhanced Experience Mitigation Toolkit 2.0 (EMET 2.0) to increase the defense effort in the browser. These additional programs for free download at the Microsoft site.

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