IE7 Vulnerability Now Being Exploited
A number of Internet security providers, including McAfee, Trend Micro, and F-Secure are reporting that exploit code for the Internet Explorer 7 vulnerability, patched by Microsoft last week, is now circulating in the wild.
If you have not downloaded and applied this patch you should do so immediately. If you have Automatic Updates enabled on your computer, then this patch has already been applied. Careful users will verify that this patch, has in fact, been applied.
Security vendors have noted that emails which take advantage of this vulnerability, are now circulating on the net that have an attached MS Word document, which if opened, will allow a cybercriminal remote control over the now infected machine.
