Workaround for XP Zero-day Vulnerability 3

[2ffat]

For those of you who have been watching the news, Google has published a vulnerability in XP only 4 days after notifying MS. Now there is a working hack to use that hole to get into your system. MS is working on a fix but in the meantime they have issued a workaround. You need to disable some scripts in you help file. MS has posted a script to disable or enable the scripts.


James P. Cottingham
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[r0gerc]

Thanks James

Regards, Roger

 

[Glenn9999]

For those that are still following this, Microsoft issued what I presume to be the official fix for this just now.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-042.mspx

The update KB you are looking for is 2229593

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[kjv1611]

Thanks for the posts, guys. I was about to say I'd update any stuff I have at home, but I don't think I have anything running XP at the moment.. at least not normally.

Anyway, thanks for the info.