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Tag: Active X Video

Patch Tuesday for July

Posted on July 15, 2009July 15, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Patch Tuesday for July

Yep, that’s right, its that time of month where Microsoft’s servers get slammed. Its patch week. This month some patches for holes that have Zero Day Exploits out for them already. Included in this is the Active X Video Hole, The Direct X Quicktime Hole, and the Open Type Font hole. The first two I…

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Yet another IE only problem…

Posted on July 7, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Yet another IE only problem…

Well, it seems that another problem with Active X Video has gone Zero Day. Drive by (click by?) attacks are now exploiting the hole in the MS972890 advisory. This only affects IE, and only XP and 2003, so yes it is rather limited, but XP and 2003 are still very prevalent in the world. The…

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