Microsoft Issues IE Fix

December 17, 2008 By Digital Trends Staff

Microsoft has readied a fix for the security problem in Internet Explorer, and will issue it today.

Yesterday the severity of the problem with the exploitable hole in all versions of Internet Explorer came to light. Microsoft has been working on a fix, and it’s due to be released today.

The company said:

“We plan to release the security update tomorrow, Dec. 17, 2008 to address the vulnerability we’ve discussed in Microsoft Security Advisory 961051. Our target time, as always, is 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. We’ll be holding two special webcasts to give you details and take your questions.”

The webcasts will be at 1 pm Pacific today, and 11 am Pacific tomorrow.

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Ian Bell and Dan Gaul at 12:20am 19th December 2008 I like chrome, but I want my dang search box back!! And better way to bookmark.
ken at 4:13pm 17th December 2008 I use Mozilla Firefox for 80 to 90% of my time on the web. The only time I use IE is when I have to go to a DOD site as they do not support Firefox. Maybe now they will start supporting other browsers.
Lars at 2:21pm 17th December 2008 Mozilla Firefox is the way to go.
Lars at 2:21pm 17th December 2008 Mozilla Firefox is the wat to go.
Jack at 1:39pm 17th December 2008 if i switch from ie will be able to switch
back to ie after its fixed.
jason at 11:13am 17th December 2008 I think that Microsoft knew about this "back door" in IE. It's so that Microsoft has some-what of a control over the users. Now hackers finally got into the system which surprised Microsoft and they are in the state where they have to act like everything is under control or else they will have multiple law suits filed against the company.