Microsoft: Out-of-Cycle Security Patch Coming
Posted by Tom Warren on 28 July 2004 - 19:27 · 6 comments & 2781 views
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#1 Posted by kainashi on 28 Jul 2004 - 19:30
- about time.
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#2 Posted by finalcoolman on 28 Jul 2004 - 19:45
- I hope this will be included in SP2.
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#3 Posted by s.a.m. on 28 Jul 2004 - 20:32
- It's going to be Friday. See this thread:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=193949&st=0&
The company will release the patch, which is currently being tested, next week as a "critical" security update to provide a "long-term solution to the core vulnerability" that led to the Download.Ject attack.
Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft group product manager for Internet Explorer, made the announcement, saying the patch would cover IE versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0.
The software giant has already released a Trojan detection and removal tool to help PC users clean up after the attack, which targeted well-known software flaws to install keystroke loggers and other malicious code on infected systems.
The 118 kilobyte removal tool is programmed to remove the payload delivered by the server-side Download.Ject Trojan. The Trojan, also known as Scob, exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft's IIS 5.0 servers and IE to distribute malware programs. It started spreading late last month after unknown attackers uploaded a small file with JavaScript to infected Web sites running Microsoft IIS 5.0 servers.
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