Microsoft has to release an emergency patch to fix a very serious software flaw that allows hackers to hijack Internet Explorer (IE) browsers and take over computers.
The company is going to push out an emergency update for the flaw that has been reported.

The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer and not the Windows OS. It primarily affects Chinese websites where the malicious software goes after passwords for computer games. This affects all versions of IE.

You must turn on your Windows Update to be able to see the patch pop when it was released or you can download the patch on Microsoft Download Center when it becomes available.

To enable Windows Update – Go to the Control Panel -> Windows Update -> Change Settings then choose either ‘Install updates automatically’ (Recommended), ‘Download updates but let me choose whether to install them’, or ‘Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them’.

also from taipeitimes.com
Researchers at software security firm Trend Micro say attacks based on the vulnerability in the world’s most popular Web browser are “spreading like wildfire” with millions of computers already compromised.

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

“When the patch is released people should run, not walk, to get it installed,” said Trend Micro advanced threat researcher Paul Ferguson.

“This vulnerability is being actively exploited by cyber-criminals and getting worse every day,” he said.

Trend Micro has identified about 10,000 Web sites that have been infected with malicious software that can be surreptitiously slipped into visitors’ unprotected IE browsers to take advantage of the flaw.

“What makes this so insidious it takes advantage of a big gaping hole of IE, which has the largest install base of any browser on the market,” Ferguson said.

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