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As Microsoft pushed out two Patch Tuesday security updates for Windows and Office Excel, the company warned that attackers are targeting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that can be used to hijack machines.
Microsoft issued a warning March 9 for Internet Explorer users as the company pushed out its monthly round of patches to cover security holes in Windows and Microsoft Office Excel.
In an advisory, the company warned that a new vulnerability was being targeted in attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and 7. IE 8 is not believed to be affected. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability is due to an invalid pointer reference being used within IE and can be exploited by tricking users into visiting a malicious or compromised Web page.
“At this time, we are aware of targeted attacks attempting to use this vulnerability … Based on our investigation, setting the Internet zone security setting to High will protect users from the issue described in this advisory,” the company stated.
Besides changing the Internet zone settings, users can also modify the access control list on iepeers.dll. Instructions are contained within the advisory.
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