Yesterday Microsoft announced a zero-day exploit in the wild that was being actively used against people running IE versions 6 through 11. There is no true fix, but there are a couple of things that can be done to help. First, stop using IE is the recommendation from the US and UK governments. There's plenty of other good browsers: Firefox, ( Read more... )

Google Chrome has been doing this, Mozilla is considering it for Firefox. And Microsoft will be forcing this on people, so anyone still running IE 6 will be getting upgraded whether they want this or not.http://www

"The first widespread attack to leverage the Internet Explorer flaw that Microsoft patched in an emergency update Thursday morning has surfaced. By midday Thursday Symantec had spotted hundreds of Web sites that hosted the attack code. The attack installs a Trojan horse program that is able to bypass some security products and then give hackers ( Read more... )

From TFA: Microsoft confirmed it learned of the so-called “zero-day” flaw months ago ( Read more... )

"Microsoft still has not released a patch for a major zero-day flaw in IE6 that was used by Chinese hackers to attack Google. After sample code was posted on a website, calls began for Microsoft to release an out-of-cycle patch. Now, France has joined Germany in recommending its citizens abandon IE altogether, rather than waiting for a patch. ( Read more... )

"After McAfee's disclosure of an IE 0-day vulnerability this week that had been used in Operation Aurora, the hack and stealing of data from Google, Adobe and about 3 dozen other major companies, the German government has advised the public to switch to alternative browsers. Given that the exploit has now been made public and the patch from ( Read more... )