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Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day


From: Bill Sehmel <bsehmel () hopone net>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:48:55 -0400


Gadi Evron wrote:
Hi guys, several ISP's are experiencing a flood of calls from customers
who get failed installations of the recent IE 0day - VML - (vgx.dll).

If you are getting such floods too, this is why.

This is currently discussed on the botnets@ list, as raised by Cox, and I
figured I will float it out here.

No patch is currently available from Microsoft, workaround are available.

        Gadi.

And this has to do with Network Operations in what way?

-Bill

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