A security researcher has published the first exploit against one of the 14 vulnerabilities patched last week by Microsoft, security company Symantec has warned customers. In a posting to the Full Disclosures security mailing list, Alla Bezroutchko, a senior security engineer at Brussels-based Scanit NV/SA, spelled out JavaScript code that crashes Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2. Bezroutchko's proof of concept exploits the critical bug in XML Core Services that was patched by MS07-042. That update, one of six rated "critical" by Microsoft, affected every currently supported version of Windows, including the new Vista operating system. An analyst last week pegged MS07-042 as one that should be deployed immediately. "MS07-042 affects everything," said Don Leatham, director of solutions and strategies at PatchLink. "There's so much going on with XML in enterprises. That's why this is so dangerous." FULL STORY

Another FUD to abandon Windows altogether & switch to Linux or MAC :-) i_Xp/VistaUser

I find it quite comical that the 2 biggest resource (Symantec and McAfee) hogs are talking about the patch. Makes one wonder where the other so-called AV leaders are. As far as Linux, I tried it on numerous occasions and found it to be slow as mollasses and lacked many drivers. That was using linux as the sole OS. Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!