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Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 22 Sep 2006 15:18:57 +0000
sean () donelan com (Sean Donelan) writes:
For assistance with Microsoft security issues in the US, call (866) PC-SAFETY
according to http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2019162,00.asp, microsoft has not released a patch for the VML thing, so calling (866) PC-SAFETY isn't going to be a universal fix (and who will $user call after that, we wonder?) according to http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=628, there is now malware-in-the-field that exploits the VML thing. and according to http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=6771, there's already phishing. last but not least, according to http://isotf.org/zert/ there is a non-MSFT patch for the VML thing. i don't expect ISP's to recommend its use, due to liability reasons, but mentioning it or even proactively notifying about it might be a way to get people off the phone (or keep them from calling in). (i'll remove the ISC training ad from my .signature for this post, since i've gone way over my NANOG quota here -- three messages in 24 hours, oops.) -- Paul Vixie
Current thread:
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day, (continued)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Michael . Dillon (Sep 22)
- RE: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Lincoln Dale (Sep 22)
- [Closed-Dead-OT-CloseMe]Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Myke Lyons (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Pete Templin (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Barry Shein (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Joel Jaeggli (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Paul Vixie (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Joel Jaeggli (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Sean Donelan (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Paul Vixie (Sep 22)
- Microsoft Support (was Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day) Sean Donelan (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Robert Snyder (Sep 21)