[92461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sehmel)
Thu Sep 21 21:48:01 2006
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:48:55 -0400
From: Bill Sehmel <bsehmel@hopone.net>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0609212003590.32766-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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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