Just when he had started to get rid of bad reputation of insecure browser, Internet Explorer he gave it to the bar again. A few days ago it was discovered critical vulnerability in IE, dear permission Hacker on remotely execute arbitrary codes in the system, even if you just visit it infected web page. Unfortunately, this time, it's not just a problem of old versions of IE 6, because versions are also affected 7, 8 and 9, and that vulnerability is already there exploiter, through it already being affected thousands of computers.

Exploit are 4 main component, these being the file Explot.html which acts as a starting point, then a flash file, Moh2010.SWF, responsible for Trojan infection PoisonIvy, the file Protect.html which "activates" the vulnerability through which the exploit can be made, and additional malware components, downloaded and installed in the affected system by trojan.

Poisonivy is a backdoor trojan that allows unauthorized access and control of an affected machine. It attempts to hide by injecting itself into other processes.

Until this major problem for Internet Explorer will be resolved by Microsoft, it is recommended either to upgrade to IE 10, which is not affected by the vulnerability, either use browsers alternative, for example Firefox, Opera or Chrome. If you don't want to give up using Internet Explorer altogether, or you need it to browse certain sites, including Microsoft recommends be it setati Internet and Local intranet security zone the High petru to block ActiveX Controls and Acrive Scripting, either to install Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit and add Internet Explorer browser to it to block the exploit (for a download the toolkit and to find out more information about it, visit Microsoft's official page).

Note: Details about the vulnerability and how it can affect computers can be found here here.

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